>>I just used RETRY recently in VFP 8 app. :) There I need to make a certain number of retries to open the file that can be under another process at the moment, and cannot yet be opened. I used a combination of ON ERROR and TRY/CATCH.
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>Try/Catch in a loop would be alot more elegant than using Retry and On Error.
It's a question of how you look at it. :) To me, since the global ON ERROR handler already existed, simple RETRY looked more elegant then extra bulky construction of a loop with TRY/CATCH.
And it does the job. :)
Nick Neklioudov
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3 times Microsoft MVP - Visual FoxPro
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