[clue-tech] increment weather

Jed S. Baer cluemail at jbaer.cotse.net
Tue Feb 23 20:10:23 MST 2010


On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:38:55 -0700
David L. Anselmi wrote:

> Sometimes, but not always.  Sometimes the condition is an expression
> that isn't affected by anything in the loop.  Like:
> 
> while read foo ...
> 
> read returns false at EOF, which probably doesn't get set inside the
> loop.

You almost had me there. It having been a long day, part of which was
spent beating my head against something which is, in my book, an
abomination to the world of database development.

But of course the read happens inside the loop. I can even recall writing
nested read loops on the same file. Shows how old I am, that I've done
transaction processing using flat files with multiple record types.

jed
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