Goto: & Labels

[Option^Explicit]

What example can someone give to show how to use Goto Label: , but not to be
used for error control.
What if I want to use it to skip across a bunch of code?

[J French]

Re: Goto: & Labels

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 05:57:00 GMT, "Option^Explici t"
<techsmail%@sha w.ca> wrote:
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>What example can someone give to show how to use Goto Label: , but not to be
>used for error control.
>What if I want to use it to skip across a bunch of code?[/color]


For L9 = 1 To Max
If A$(L9) = "" Then GoTo SKIP
....

SKIP:
Next

However, be very careful using GoTo,
- its use is strongly deprecated by most programmers
- primarily because it used to be (ab)used
- creating tangled unreadable code

IMO - only use it if all practical alternatives produce *less*
readable code

You would be well advised setting yourself some strict rules for its
use

[Rick Rothstein]

Re: &amp; Labels

> What example can someone give to show how to use Goto Label: , but not to
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> used for error control.
> What if I want to use it to skip across a bunch of code?[/color]

You should go out of your way to avoid using Goto, using it only when the
alternative is unreadable. So you understand, it is never "necessary" to use
Goto, there is always an alternative. To answer your direct question... if
you have code you wish to skip over, it is because some condition is not
being met. To state that another way, you want to execute you bunch of code
only if some condition is being met. You can do that with an If-Then-EndIf
block.

.......
.......
If SomeConditionIs Met Then
.....
.....
your bunch of code
.....
.....
End If
......
......

Rick - MVP