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

I prefer this "priming" read approach - seems simpler to me, but that's me. I do prefer the single test condition and the cleaner look. I don't do CHAIN, because the first test is a different BIF - %found - IIRC in my cold-befogged mental condition - gotta love Nyquil.

For keyed access I now alter it to

setll file;
reade file;

dow not %eof(file);
process data;
reade file;
enddo;


DennisRootes@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I've always done it this way (proving once again that there are many ways to skin a cat =):

read file;
dow not %eof(file);
process data;
read file;
enddo;


Wow, just back from lunch and so many posts. I consider ITER and LEAVE to
be backwards from the way I think. I condition on what I want to do not on
what I don't want to do.

dou eof;
read file;
if not eof;
processdata;
endif;
enddo;

This makes more sense to me than;

dou eof;
read file;
if eof;
leave;
endif;
processdata;
enddo;

That's my opinion and I'm sticking with it.

Regards,

Guy