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to: David Noon
from: Bill Hemenway
date: 1995-01-22 08:09:08
subject: Goto

DN> On Tuesday, 01-17-1995  Bill Hemenway wrote to Bob Swift about
"GOTO"
 DN> as follows:

BH> Actually what I'm looking for is a way to go through the program
BH> and then at the end of it ask the user if he would like to do it
BH> again and then go back to the beginning of the program,

 DN> Hi Bill,

 DN> In classical "mainframe" REXX something like the following is often
 DN> used:

 DN>     DO UNTIL LEFT(Repeat_it,1) == "N"


 DN>        /* Your program goes here */

 DN>        SAY "Do it again?"
 DN>        PARSE UPPER PULL Repeat_it
 DN>    END

 DN> I hope this helps.

 DN> Regards

Yeah that would work. I wound up using SIGNAL and a label like AGAIN:

Bill


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