>>>>>Does a scan endscan loop exit at the bottom of the loop or at the top?
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>>>>It goes from top to bottom.
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>>>Yes, that's right. But, a do while loop loops and at the end it exits the loop at the top. I believe that a for next loop runs and exits at the bottom.
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>>I don't see why it's important. One should not write code based on these assumptions. Either you exit loop specifically (by Exit) or you don't care.
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>I was under the impression that if you have an EXIT in there, then the alogorythm isn't really designed "properly".

In theory, that's true, but there are some cases where the loop is so much cleaner with an EXIT than without. The most common situation for me to use EXIT is a FOR EACH loop where I'm looking for something in a collection. There's really no other good way to do this.

Tamar