Good places to use "The Cycle" in today's RPG was->Re: FW: Niftiest thing(s) you have done in RPG ILE or /FREE

Since I started programming in RPG about 10 years ago I have only ever used the cycle if I was maintaining somebody elses app (I had to use it about one month ago for a process that had an input primary read table which sent XML transactions to another party). It threw me for a loop initially because I didn't catch the P in the F spec, but once I realized what was going on it worked just fine.

Now, in my mind I would have instead just created a READ/DO/READ/ENDDO structure in the mainline of the program, but that is just opinion. Outside of input primary read type programs where you process the entire file, what other purposes are there where "the cycle is the best tool for the job"? Asking out of complete ignorance because I am one that rarely explicitly uses it (to my knowledge). Note I do have programming that doesn't turn on *INLR and I am guessing that would be one of the areas you would consider the cycle good? (and I would agree).

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

Mark Walter wrote:

That's total bunk, brother. Sometime the cycle is the best tool for the job.

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Chris wrote:
As for ILE/RPG, the cycle is about as useful
as mammaries on a boar.

Chris -
I think I resemble that remark!
- sjl