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

On 10/01/2009, at 5:06 AM, GUY_HENZA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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.

Not eight days into the new year and already we have had abuse from Pluta, the cycle wars, and now variations on GOTO/LEAVE/ITER/etc. Thanks for nothing people. Obviously not enough work for you at this time of year. 2009 looks like being a repetition of previous years-- so much to look forward to!

By the way both those forms suck. The correct form is a priming-read loop:

read file;
dow not(eof(file));
processdata;
read file;
enddo;

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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