Thanks to Ron & Carol, they 'enlightened' my understanding about the 'while'
command.

I'm living on the edge here, I'm going to use the repeat...fornum command.

Getting out of my comfort zone and try something different.

Thanks again,

Larry <climbing out of his rut> Barnes  :)

-----Original Message-----
From: carol darnell [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 10:30 AM
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Calling all Vesoft Guru's


try:
setlvar cntr 0

while cntr<100 do
  *whatever*
  setlvar cntr cntr+1
endwhile

or, if you're using expression programming, include the same in your
while/begin/end construct.

i think (don't quote me, ok?) that the logical expression evaluated as the
*while* is looking for a variable to test directly, rather than another
calculation construct.  The parsing logic evidently doesn't allow for
another verb... but it's easily remedied, anyway

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