Re: Does this string processing work for you?


"Dan Nagle" <dannagle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> David Frank wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> No it shud be 8 for same reason that the standard dictates that a do loop
>> shall exit +1 to its do terminus count when run to completion and lots of
>> code depends on that behaviour, this just repeats that KNOWN behaviour
>
> But if a program exits from a loop prematurely, the loop index
> is the last value obtaining within the loop. Surely, that's
> the behavior you're trying to emulate.

NO, thats NOT the behavior were trying to emulate, we are emulating a normal
do loop that has successfully ended processing all available items with no
problems encountered (because we setup a known string with a built-in
terminus)..

> Unless you want to consider
> a premature end condition to be expected?
>

To re-iterate, the ERR=exit is ALWAYS taken with a intact loop index +1 to
last valid item decoded/stored,
the err is expected because we setup a known error condition at string end,
with a blank pad // char(0)



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