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confuse about DO WHILE structure

Postby lxw039 » Tue Oct 21, 2008 6:50 pm

how are you, guys, I have a question ask for yours help.
PERFORM 100-PROCESS-DATA UNTITL EOF='Y'.
eah cobol book says: this is a DO WHILE structure, but I think DO WHILE describ as following:
" loop body excute if condition is true, otherwise exit loop if condition is false."
but anybody knows that the above statement is loop body excute if condition(EOF='Y') is false,
when the condition is true, it will exit loop.
as a result, the statement is not a DO WHILE structure,
anybody can tell me the answer? thanks first.
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Re: confuse about DO WHILE structure

Postby dick scherrer » Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:07 am

Hello,

Yes, it can be thought of as a DO WHILE.

The WHILE is "EOF not= 'Y'".
Hope this helps,
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Re: confuse about DO WHILE structure

Postby lxw039 » Wed Oct 22, 2008 6:25 pm

I got it, thank you very much, Mr. Dick.!
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Re: confuse about DO WHILE structure

Postby dick scherrer » Thu Oct 23, 2008 2:31 am

You're welcome :)

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