November 2004
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
11h 49m
English
book
DB2® SQL PL: Essential Guide for DB2® UDB on Linux™, UNIX®, Windows®, i5/OS™, and z/OS®, Second Edition
by Zamil Janmohamed, Clara Liu, Drew Bradstock, Raul Chong, Michael Gao, Fraser McArthur, Paul Yip
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Chapter 4. Using Flow of Control Statements
In this chapter, you will learn how to
Use the compound statement
Use labels in both compound statements and loops
Work with the two conditional statements (
IFandCASE)Implement the four looping statements (
FOR,WHILE,REPEAT, andLOOP)Implement the four transfer of control statements (
GOTO,LEAVE,ITERATE, andRETURN)
Sequential execution is the most basic path that program execution can take. With this method, the program starts execution at the first line of the code, followed by the next, and continues until the final statement in the code has been executed. This approach works fine for very simple tasks but tends to lack usefulness because it can only handle one situation. Programs often need to be ...
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