Re: FOR loop available in RPG IV

["Bill Meecham" <bmeecham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simon,

Oh, that's nice.  So to use the FOR you have to test C>A or C<A and select
the FOR instance that you want to run.  Interesting that the format changes!
FOR,BY,TO but FOR,DOWNTO,BY.

I changed my test code and it works fine for any input now.  Nice way to
confuse my fellow coders.

Thank you
Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: Simon Coulter <shc@flybynight.com.au>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: FOR loop available in RPG IV



Hello Bill,

You wrote:
>For X = A by B to C
>A and B can be any positive or negative number
>C must be any number greater than A
>Which presents a problem with counting backwards.

I'll grant you it's not the most intuitive form but the following code
compiles and runs
as expected:

D i               S              5I 0
C                   for       i = 10 downto 0 by 1
C     i             dsply
C                   endfor
C                   seton                                        LR

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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