| From: | Ash Wyllie |
| Date: | 11 Aug 2001 at 16:29:40 |
| Subject: | Re: Back to my "ITERATE" problem |
Gently extracted from the mind of Andrew Bruno;
>Hi,
>I have now got back into the swing of things and am playing with this
>"terminate the loop" thing.
>This is the example program:
>/* */
>ECHO 'Starting the program.'
>test.1 = "ANDREW"
>test.2 = "BARNEY"
>test.3 = "CHARLIE"
>test.4 = "DANNIEL"
>test.5 = "EDWARD"
>test.6 = "FREDERICK"
>name = "EDWARD"
>DO i = 1 to 6
> IF name = test.i THEN
> DO
> ECHO 'Found'
> ITERATE i
> END
> ECHO i
>END
>ECHO 'Exiting program'
>The ITERATE i line is added later but this is what I get with the line in:
>Starting the program.
>1
>2
>3
>4
>Found
>6
>Exiting program
>Without:
>Starting the program.
>1
>2
>3
>4
>Found
>5
>6
>Exiting program
>So I guess the ITERATE command is not doing what I want.
>I guess the best way to do it is instead of the ITERATE i line, I should put
>in i=6 and it will then stop altogether - right?
>I am posting this as obvious as the answer is, to maybe help others who
>are/were as confused as I was when I asked the question.
>:)
I assume that you wish to know which i gives (test.i = name). If that is true
replace ITERATEe with LEAVE.
-ash
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