Somebody please explain this to me. I am attempting to use debug in this program that I have just started to code. At the very beginning of this script (it's on the OK button click), I have a simple message_box that simply says "start of program" with an OK button on it. The debug is after the message_box and a bunch of variables.

When I include the UNTIL eof DO statement the following happens - the message_box does not appear and the debug does not work. When I remark out the UNTIL eof DO statement, the message_box appears and the debug activates.

I have the following statements - note eof=0, done=1:

debug

table=DDAASC"

OPEN table TO ASCII_TABLE THEN

OPEN 'DICT', table to @DICT ELSE NULL

END

SELECT ASCII_TABLE

ascii_loop:

READNEXT @ID USING CURSOR_NO ELSE eof=TRUE

UNTIL eof DO

READ @RECORD FROM ASCII_TABLE, @ID ELSE

	m=MESSAGE_BOX(@WINDOW,"Unable to read Ascii Table" ,MSG_BTN_OK$)

	RETURN 1

END

	GOSUB process_rec

	GOSUB build_mst

REPEAT

RETURN 1

I have checked various programs that we have this same type of logic in, and it works fine with debug. The file I am reading does have a btrieve index, but I removed the btrieve and got the same results.

Any ideas as to what is happening to either the message_box or debug or both???

Thanks for your help

Andy

Found the solution.

The problem was that there was no LOOP at the beginning of the readnext etc.

I had ascii_loop with a colon after it, but no loop without the column. I put LOOP in and it works.

Andy

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