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Skipping an iteration, not the loop

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  • B Brady Kelly

    More often than not, I get #1. As they arrive, I see my stupid error, but I don't apologise, I just thank them. I wasn't wasting their time, because if I didn't call them, I wouldn't have seen the bug.

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    Lost User
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    Only problem being, that I don't work with anyone else that knows how to code :(. Everyone else is just IT, install and repair.. I do all the code.

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    • L Lost User

      Only problem being, that I don't work with anyone else that knows how to code :(. Everyone else is just IT, install and repair.. I do all the code.

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      codemunch
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      That's the beauty of it - wether they can code or not is irrelevant :) The bug always manifests itself with this technique.

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      • E Ennis Ray Lynch Jr

        Be glad goto's are strongly frowned on. I do not miss my VB6 days.


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        Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway

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        Brady Kelly
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        A well placed label and a goto are no different to a 'continue'. Even 'continue' can be frowned upon in some places. Your conditional should take care of all loop exits blah blah blah.

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        • Mike HankeyM Mike Hankey

          Sometimes its the simplist things that mess us up. I've spent hours chasing a bug just to find it was something very simple and was right in front of me. "Theres no place like home....." Mike

          Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. "George Carlin"

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          Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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          Mike Hankey wrote:

          something very simple and was right in front of me

          True. Sometimes the innocuous looking little semicolon right under the nose would play the game of a rat and the cat. :-D

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          • E Ennis Ray Lynch Jr

            Be glad goto's are strongly frowned on. I do not miss my VB6 days.


            Need a C# Consultant? I'm available.
            Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway

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            Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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            Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:

            I do not miss my VB6 days

            :confused:

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            • V Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

              Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:

              I do not miss my VB6 days

              :confused:

              Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage Tech Gossips

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              Brady Kelly
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              Do you?

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              • B Brady Kelly

                A well placed label and a goto are no different to a 'continue'. Even 'continue' can be frowned upon in some places. Your conditional should take care of all loop exits blah blah blah.

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                Ennis Ray Lynch Jr
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                That is a debate I suppose. However, I think break and continue are more self-evident than the corresponding code to terminate a loop early. Of course you qualified your label and goto statement with well placed. The problem was never with well placed labels and goto's as assembly language requires it the problem is non-well placed resulting in spaghetti.


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                • L Lost User

                  I had some code that would enumerate through sharepoint lists in a subsite, and i had my code skip out if the list was not the one i was looking for. Code looked something like this: if (node.Attributes["Title"] != "Announcements") break; thinking dumbly that with the 'break' clause it would cut out of the loop and go to the next item. But then I finally realized that it was only iterating once before breaking out of the loop entirely, but only after having gone through every single line of code presceding that little if statement, attempting to find the logic errors in the view identification and credentials and other queries on the desired list. After all that work, I realized all I needed to do was change 'break' to 'continue'...

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                  Draugnar
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                  Another simple solution, if continue isn't available, is to put everything inside the loop into a method that gets passed any objects (like records or arrays) needed from the loop for processing. Then you can issue a return when you are finished processing that record and the loop will process the next record, skipping over the rest of the method. It also has the advantage of being readily understood by the newbie programmers who might have to maintain your code later.

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                  • E Ennis Ray Lynch Jr

                    Be glad goto's are strongly frowned on. I do not miss my VB6 days.


                    Need a C# Consultant? I'm available.
                    Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway

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                    Collin Parker
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                    You're alone on that one.

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                    • Mike HankeyM Mike Hankey

                      Sometimes its the simplist things that mess us up. I've spent hours chasing a bug just to find it was something very simple and was right in front of me. "Theres no place like home....." Mike

                      Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. "George Carlin"

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                      CPallini
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                      Mike Hankey wrote:

                      "Theres no place like home....."

                      No, there is home itself, at least. :-D

                      If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.

                      In testa che avete, signor di Ceprano?

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