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[aurelCB]

Hi...

[ZeroDog]

Is faster way use WHILE/ENDWILE loop instead DO/UNTIL ?

They should be about the same.  I think the difference between the two is that with a DO/UNTIL loop it checks the conditional flag of the loop EOF(file1) at the end of the loop, and the WHILE/ENDWHILE checks the conditional flag at the start of the loop. 

You could always time how long each loop takes using the GetTickCount API function.

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DECLARE "kernel32.dll", GetTickCount(),int

TicksBeforeLoop=GetTickCount()
Do
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Until EOF(file1)
TicksAfterLoop=GetTickCount()
MillisecondsItTookForLoop=TicksAfterLoop-TicksBeforeLoop


[ZeroDog]

if you time one cycle of the while loop, is it 10 milliseconds?

[Ionic Wind Support Team]

GetTickCount only has a resolution of 10ms, so it's not very useful for timing one iteration of code.  Run 1000 iterations of each.