Hi Sergey
Hmmm, that's interesting. I've never bothered to test that. Is it not true that, at least in other languages, you could use code like that to (lazily) short-circuit the loop to get out of it?
Anyway, as a general rule, I always do the func once and store to a var.
>Terry,
>
>All expressions in the FOR loop statement are evaluated only once at the start of the loop
>
>lnMin = 2
>lnMax = 3
>FOR i = lnMin TO lnMax
> ? i, lnMin, lnMax
> lnMin = 0
> lnMax = 5
>ENDFOR
>
>
>>
>>Just on a wee efficiency note: why are you evaluating ALEN(laFiles,1) every time through the for loop - up to 13,000 time?
>>
>>I always use something like:
>>
>>lnAlen = ALEN(laFiles,1)
>>For I = 1 to lnAlen ...
>>
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