Re: Porting Code to Postgresql

Richard Welty wrote:

>[taking this offlist]
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>On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:51:00 -0700 Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)fireserve(dot)net> wrote:
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>>In a for loop, you *always* execute the body of the loop one time, as
>>far as I know. So if you have no rows, you would then have a problem.
>>That is why I put the WHILE at the top.
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>in some languages, for loops have this problem. this is why i reviewed two
>php references to double check my facts before i posted my followup, and
>both claimed that in php, the test is at the top of the loop.
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>i can code something up and test it you like.
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>richard
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You're right! I looked up
http://www.php.net/for
and found it.
Apparently C also does the test at the top of the loop
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/webmonkeys/book/c_guide/1.6.html

Well, that will simplify a lot of my future code :-)

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