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Re: simple question [message #20156 is a reply to message #16986]

Thu, 18 May 2000 00:00

promashkin
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Registered: December 1999

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Isn't breaking out of DO loops the same as using conditional loops? FOR
/ DO have a particular purpose, to execute a certain number of times.
For repeating under a condition, WHILE and REPEAT are provided, I think.
Cheers,
Pavel

Paul van Delst wrote:
>
> Craig Markwardt wrote:
>>
>> "richard hilton" <rdh5@dmu.ac.uk> writes:
>>
>>> This probably sounds like a stupid question but does anybody know of an IDL
>>> equivilent to the CONTINUE command in C/C++ ? Your help would be much
>>> appreciated.
>>
>> I've wished for an equivalent to continue and break, but have never
>> found it. You will have to do use GOTO explicitly.
>>
>> for i = 0, n-1 do begin
>> if val(i) EQ 0 then goto, NEXT_VAL ;; equivalent to continue
>> compute_val, val(i)
>> if val(i) LT 0 then goto, DONE_VAL ;; equivalent to break
>> NEXT_VAL:
>> endfor
>> DONE_VAL:O

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		simple question about bytes By: Gerhard D. Rappold on Thu, 02 September 1999 00:00
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		Re: simple question By: Paul van Delst on Fri, 19 May 2000 00:00
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		Re: simple question By: Paul van Delst on Thu, 18 May 2000 00:00
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