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From
24/06/2005 19:41:08
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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24/06/2005 12:50:56
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Title:
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8 SP1
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01026363
Message ID:
01026468
Views:
18
>Hi All. I have been reading some threads about SCAN - ENDSCAN. Due to old habits I have used DO WHILE but am interested in the speed improvements that SCAN ENDSCAN appear to offer.
>
>Any gotchas to watch out for when converting DO WHILE loops to SCAN ENDSCAN? I did read Dragan's comment about nested SCAN's on the *same* file. Are there any others?

Note that with SCAN, there is no guarantee that the records will be processed in any specific order. Sometimes this matters, usually it doesn't.
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