Re: why does SQR skip a line on new page?

[Wendy Biggs <biggswl@VT.EDU>]

Hmmm...  Thanks Dave!   that gets the result I was expecting from the
other code...

so it must be that SQR sees the line advance (position (+1)),
"does the math" and knows it has to go to a new page,
goes to a new page (now we are at (1,1))
and then executes the line advance (position (+1)) just the same

--wb

"Benzenhafer, Dave" wrote:
>
> Try this
>
> Let #bottom_line = 55  !or whatever the length of your page is
> begin-program
>   while #count < 100
>     print #current-line ( ,5) edit 999
>
>    If #current-line >= #bottom_line
>         newpage
>
>         !you can use this line if you need to use more than one column
>         !on a page and set up the column command
>
>       !next-column goto-top=1 at-end=newpage
>
>    else
>       position (+1,1)
>    end-if
>
>     add 1 to #count
>   end-while
> end-program
>
> Dave Benzenhafer
> dbenzenhafer@houston.deepwater.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wendy Biggs [mailto:biggswl@VT.EDU]
> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 3:31 PM
> To: SQR-USERS@list.iex.net
> Subject: why does SQR skip a line on new page?
>
> can someone explain to me why the following code will only print on line
> 1 of the first page of output? [all subsequent pages start on line 2]
>
> begin-program
>   while #count < 100
>     print #current-line ( ,5) edit 999
>     position (+1)
>     add 1 to #count
>   end-while
> end-program
>
> --wb
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