end Statement

The end statement indicates both the end of a series of statements executed conditionally from a then or else condition or the physical end of the program.

Syntax

end

Description

The end statement is used in two ways:

Physical program end (optional):

.......statements.......

.....body of program....

.......statements.......

end

The trailing end statement is not required on source code, but is helpful for program readability. Any statements after the end statement (in this case) are not compiled.

Multiline then/else statements must have terminating end statements:

if logical.exp then

statement

end

Example(s)

This example reprompts for ans if the previous ans is n.

10 *

input ans

if ans=’n’ then

print ’Please retype ’:

goto 10

end

If the md file does not exist, a warning message is printed and program execution stops. Notice that stop is the FlashBASIC or BASIC run-time directive that indicates the termination of run time. The end statement indicates the end of the multiple line then statement. Without the stop, program execution continues with the next statement after the end statement.

open ’md’ to md else

print ’Cannot open file’

stop

end

crt ’File opened’