Xbasic END or STOP

[ColinJD]

Curiosity asks, is there any real difference between these two ?
END || STOP

From the help
END
The END statement stops script execution; closes all files, indexes, and tables opened by the script;

STOP
suspends the execution of a script.


Any guide to usage ?

[drgarytraub]

Re: Xbasic END or STOP

Colin,

My guess would be that END does all the good stuff that you just described - STOP just stops the running of the script without doing all the other good stuff.

By the way, in your other thread on this topic, are you saying that you have found that by using the END statement, you have solved the memory "clutter" (i.e., RAM usage quickly increasing over time) issue? Is this the preferred method over tbl.close() and ndx.drop()?

[ColinJD]

Re: Xbasic END or STOP

Gary,
What I don't know?
When, My ISP migrated from one system to another the memory problem just got worse. I don't know why? Is it the new SANS system? is it Windows2008?
Is it the A5server? was it my code?. I just don't know.
But please look at the attachment to see what Monday was like for my server.
In respect to restarts.
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I'm not promising the fountain of youth, Dr Gary, I'm stating that my ver9 WAS has drunk from the waters and has been rejuvinated.
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The END I am only using on AJAX Code,
Maybe it will have an effect on other code
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I would actually to be double sure
finish like

xyQry.Drop()
xyTbl.Close()
END
end if
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Although the documentation suggests you don't need to.
But I think it look prettier. :-)

remember that when you put in an END, zero more code will be executed,
only labeled code and functions.

Good luck !

[csda1]

Re: Xbasic END or STOP

In XBasic,

END works in Scripts and Functions
EXIT FUNCTION works in Functions
STOP Seems to be the same as END, but documentation does not indicate that it closes tables and the like.

They all generate different operands, so they can be different, although I don't see much. In general, I use END in scripts, whereas I use EXIT FUNCTION in functions (per Selwyn telling me that it was the preferred over END). I have never used STOP, and only a few Alpha functions ever use it, and most of the time, right after an error.

Just a piece of the puzzle.

[ColinJD]

Re: Xbasic END or STOP

I use EXIT FUNCTION in functions (per Selwyn telling me that it was the preferred over END).
I didn't know that one, I was sure all the examples used END
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STOP maybe a legacy type command,
I remember it being a necessity in a assembler BASIC , 30+ yrs ago,
I'm sure in that version there were no end or exit though