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END SWITCH Directive

         End Branching of a Program

Format

END SWITCH

Description

Use the END SWITCH directive to stop the branching that has been activated in an

application by a SWITCH directive.

Note: For complete syntax, refer to SWITCH..CASE Branch Control, p.329.

See Also

SWITCH..CASE Branch Control, p.329,

BREAK Immediate Exit of Loop, p.33,

CASE Define Branch Points, p.42,

DEFAULT Branch If No Matching Case, p.76.

Examples

00100 PROCESS_TAXCODE:

00110  LiquorTax=0,SalesTax=0,ServiceTax=0

00120  SWITCH UCS(TaxCode$)

00130  CASE "X","Z" ! two codes are tax exempt

00140  BREAK ! stop processing for case "X" here

00150  CASE "L" ! liquor pays all liquor,sales and service tax

00160  LiquorTax=cost*LiquorTaxRate

00170 ! no break here, logic falls through

00180  CASE "S" ! pays sales and service tax

00190  SalesTax=cost*SalesTaxRate

00200 ! no break here, logic falls through

00210  CASE "V" ! service tax

00220  ServiceTax=cost*ServiceTaxRate

00230  BREAK ! end processing for this case and any that fell through

00240  DEFAULT ! enter here if case not found

00250  MSGBOX "Unknown tax code","Error"

00260  END SWITCH

00270  TotalTax=LiquorTax+SalesTax+ServiceTax

00280  RETURN