>>That's why scan..endscan is so much simpler. Two word/two lines of code

>>Scan
>>  ..
>>Endscan

>>replaces seven words/four lines of code

>>go top
>>do while !eof()
>>   ....
>>   skip
>>enddo

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>Did u ever write in Cobol ?
>How meny lines wld such 'task' take in Cobol ?
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>I guess that is why we all love Fox - Until .NET do us apart :))
>( No flares pls / just kiddin' )

I wrote a few lines of Cobol about 30 years ago, but I must admit that I have forgotten most of it. I also remember that in MS Basic on my first "real" computer, a Tandy TRS80 compatible, you could do a whole lot of stuff in just one line, but it was not very easy to debug. :-)