\value ¶Synopsis:
\value{counter}
Expands to the value of the counter counter. (Note that the name of a counter does not begin with a backslash.)
This example outputs ‘Test counter is 6. Other counter is 5.’.
\newcounter{test} \setcounter{test}{5}
\newcounter{other} \setcounter{other}{\value{test}}
\addtocounter{test}{1}
Test counter is \arabic{test}.
Other counter is \arabic{other}.
The \value command is not used for typesetting the value of the
counter. For that, see \alph \Alph \arabic \roman \Roman \fnsymbol: Printing counters.
It is often used in \setcounter or \addtocounter but
\value can be used anywhere that LaTeX expects a number, such
as in \hspace{\value{foo}\parindent}. It must not be
preceded by \protect (see \protect).
This example inserts \hspace{4\parindent}.
\setcounter{myctr}{3} \addtocounter{myctr}{1}
\hspace{\value{myctr}\parindent}