Re: %EOF, %FOUND and the infamous Dou loop

[Douglas Handy <dhandy1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark,

>  I agree about the long distance DOW/ENDDO, but disagree that ITER's don't
>work with DOW.  Why wouldn't it work?

If you look at the context of the thread, the reference was to a programmer
placing an ITER inside a DOW loop with a READE at the bottom of the loop:

        Setll   file
        Reade   file
        Dow     %eof( file )
        .
        .
        (Programmer adds code here)
        If      field = 'X'
        ITER
        Endif
        .
        .
        Reade   file
        Enddo

If you place an ITER inside such a loop with a read at the bottom, there is an
obvious problem.  It is not that ITER does not work with DOW, but that ITER does
not work well with a read at the bottom of the loop...

Doug