For loop question...

[rchiav]

Please tell me there's a way to do this other than using a
bunch of If statements. What I'm looking for is a way to do
what "continue" does in C.

I have a text file I've read into an array of strings, each
element of teh array is a line in the file. for some lines,
I only need to do minimal things, some are even discarded.
Here's what I wanted to do

Function Parse_Lines(FileArray() As String, OptionArray() As tOption) As Boolean

Dim x As Integer, y As Integer, EndTagPos As Integer
Dim OneChar As String, KeyWord As String, FileComments As String

FileComments = ""
KeyWord = ""

For x = 1 To UBound(FileArray)
If (Mid$(FileArray(x), 1, 1) = "") Or _
Just_Spaces(FileArray(x), 1) Then
<do a "Next x" or something like that to
skip the rest>
End If

If Mid$(FileArray(x), 1, 1) = "#" Then
FileComments = FileComments & Mid$(FileArray(x), _
2, Len(FileArray(x)) & vbNewLine)
<something like a Next X>
End If

... a whole lot more string parsing...

I know you can use a whole bunch of nested If's but
that's just so damn ugly. Is there any way to start
the next iteration of the for loop without traversing the
whole loop?

-Rich

[Sam Finch]

the only thing I can think of is if you do something like this

Dim i As Long
Dim j As Long
Dim boolNextIteration As Boolean
For i = 1 to 10

    For j = 1 To 1

        'Put Code Here

        If boolNextIteration Then Exit For

        'More Code Here

    Next j

Next i

Hope this helps

[rchiav]

Thanks.. that will do the trick. I threw in a goto but I definately wasn't happy using that either. This should do. A continue statement would be much cooler though.

[LG]

May be you can use Select Case

For x = 1 To UBound(FileArray)
        Select Case Mid$(FileArray(x), 1, 1)
            Case ""
                '....
            Case "#"
                '...
        End Select
Next

[rchiav]

Switch isn't going to work out for me but it was a good idea. There are some instances where I need the first two characters and switch wont (I don't think) support that. Thanks for the suggestion though.