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Revision as of 11:03, 4 February 2013
Contents
Purpose
Scans over records in a table and executes a command block for each selected record.
Syntax
SCAN [<scope>] [FOR <condition>] [WHILE <condition>]
[EXIT]
[LOOP]
ENDSCAN
See Also
CONTINUE, DO WHILE, IF, LOCATE
Description
The SCAN ... ENDSCAN command executes a command block repeatedly FOR a specified selection of records WHILE an optionally specified condition is true, or until an EXIT is encountered. The optional LOOP keyword forces control to the beginning of the SCAN.
The SCAN...ENDSCAN command can be used to reduce the programming involved in a LOCATE ... DO WHILE ... CONTINUE construct.
Example
use customers seek "HMT" scan rest while code = "HMT" echo "name=" + name + "address=" + address endscan
