I want to check if a text/comment at a special location is like expected. If so, I want to count up itemFound by 1. The problem is, that I can't bring the variable to the outer scope. (later I want to search many locations for this element)

let itemFound = 0;
cy.xpath('//table/div/span').then((item) => {
    let comment = item.text().trim();
    if (comment == "myuniquecomment")
    {
        itemFound += 1;
    }
    cy.log(itemFound)     // okay 
})

cy.log(itemFound)  // not okay