Re: Iterate before loop end

From: Duane Bozarth (dp_bozarth_at_swko.dot.net)
Date: 10/22/04 

Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:12:51 -0500

Top Spin wrote:
>
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 23:08:07 -0700, Bob O`Bob
> <filterbob@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
> >Top Spin wrote:
> >
> >> Here's my sample code. I would appreciate some help in what I can do
> >> at line 13. I don't want to do the error testing at the top because it
> >> changes and I am already doing it in the individual Case statements.
> >
> >
> >Well, *I* would simply use a GoTo.
>
> I did consider GoTo, just for a moment, but you know what that leads
> to...

Yeah, in this instance, an optimal solution...no overhead of extra
variable or logic tests and still linear code execution path in the
source...seems, given the limitation of the language, to be the
<correct> solution (imo, of course, ymmv).

Sometimes, abstinence <isn't> a virtue... :)

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