Re: dumb question #1 re: DO loops

StevO wrote:
| I am an long-time C programmer converting an old Fortran program to C.
|
| Given the following construct:
|
| DO 370 J=1,100
| IF(ID(J).LT.0) GOTO 370
| c (some other code here)
| 370 CONTINUE
|
| What does GOTO 370 do? Does it simply skip the "some other code here"
| section and continue with the next loop iteration (like a C "continue"
| statement within a C for() loop)? Or does it exit the loop?

The former ("continue") -- the end-label-line is part of the loop.
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