Article ID: 58609
Article Last Modified on 11/21/2006
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SUMMARY
The ON...GOSUB example from the QB Advisor online Help system in Microsoft QuickBasic Version 4.50 causes a "Label not defined" error when run without modification. This is not a documentation error, since the preface to the example states "the following program fragment...", thus implying that the code is incomplete.
The Microsoft Advisor online Help system for QBX.EXE (QuickBasic Extended) in Microsoft Basic Professional Development System (PDS) Version 7.00 for MS-DOS has a complete working example for ON...GOSUB.
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ON...GOSUB Example from QB.EXE Version 4.50
The following example, taken from the ON...GOSUB example in the QuickBasic 4.50 online Help system, produces a "Label not defined" error on the ON...GOSUB statement:
'The following program fragment causes program control to branch to 'one of the four subroutines listed, depending on the value of Chval: DO CLS PRINT "1) Display attendance at workshops." PRINT "2) Calculate total registration fees paid." PRINT "3) Print mailing list." PRINT "4) End program." PRINT : PRINT "What is your choice?" DO Ch$ = INKEY$ LOOP WHILE Ch$ = "" Chval = VAL(Ch$) IF Chval > 0 AND Chval < 5 THEN ON Chval GOSUB Shop, Fees, Mailer, Progend END IF LOOP END
To use the above example, you must define the four GOSUB labels (Shop:, Fees:, Mailer:, and Progend:).
ON...GOSUB Example from QBX.EXE Version 7.00
The following similar example from the QBX.EXE online Help system runs without error:
'This example uses the ON...GOSUB statement to cause program control to 'branch to one of three subroutines, depending on the value of Chval. CLS 'Clear screen. Attend = 20 Fees = 5 * Attend PRINT "1 Display attendance at workshops" PRINT "2 Calculate total registration fees paid" PRINT "3 End program" PRINT : PRINT "What is your choice?" Choice: DO ch$ = INKEY$ LOOP WHILE ch$ = "" Chval = VAL(ch$) IF Chval > 0 AND Chval < 4 THEN ON Chval GOSUB Shop, Fees, Progend END IF END Shop: PRINT "ATTENDANCE IS", Attend RETURN Choice Fees: PRINT "REGISTRATION FEES ARE $"; Fees RETURN Choice Progend: END
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