Re: %EOF, %FOUND and the infamous Dou loop

["M. Lazarus" <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Doug,

  This is a logic issue, so you could just as easily have the same problem
using DoU, unless the ReadE is at the top of the loop (which is a method I
don't care for, since an extra IF group is required.)

  -mark

At 12/31/01 10:49 PM, you wrote:
>If you look at the context of the thread, the reference was to a programmer
>placing an ITER inside a DOW loop with a READE at the bottom of the loop:
>
>         Setll   file
>         Reade   file
>         Dow     %eof( file )
>         .
>         .
>         (Programmer adds code here)
>         If      field = 'X'
>         ITER
>         Endif
>         .
>         .
>         Reade   file
>         Enddo
>
>If you place an ITER inside such a loop with a read at the bottom, there is an
>obvious problem.  It is not that ITER does not work with DOW, but that
>ITER does
>not work well with a read at the bottom of the loop...