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Looping a table in MapBasic

Products Affected: MapInfo Professional, MapInfo MapBasic

How to loop a table in MapBasic

One of the often used things in MapBasic is to loop thru a table to read values from the table and
then react to or modify these values.
MapBasic has a number of looping methods:

Do Until ... Loop


Do While ... Loop
While ... Wend
For ... Next

However one seems better than the others when it comes to looping a table: Do Until ... Loop. At
least that's the one I have been using for years. You can also use Do
While ... Loop and While ... Wend.
But I will recommend that you stay away from For ... Next when looping thru a table. I'll get back to
why.

Now you need a few other statements as well when looping a table:

Fetch First From some_table_name


Fetch Next From some_table_name
EOT( some_table_name )

Let's try to put all this together:

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Set CoordSys Table MY_TABLE

Fetch First From MY_TABLE


Do Until EOT(MY_TABLE)

nRowID = MY_TABLE.ROWID
oFeature = MY_TABLE.OBJ

Fetch Next From MY_TABLE


Loop

In the example above I loop the table called MY_TABLE. For each record I read the RowID, the
hidden dynamic column referring to a specific post in a table or query, and the spatial object from
the column called OBJ.

Oh, and I set my application to use the same coordinate system as the table before I start looping.
Now this loop doesn't really do anything clever yet. I would need to add my logic just before
the Fetch Next From statement.

I also promised to explain why you shouldn't use the For ... Next loop when working with a table.
The problem isn't as much the loop, but more that people tend to combine this loop with a
different Fetch statement; Fetch Rec nRec From.

Dim nRec, nRowID As Integer,


oFeature As Object

Set CoordSys Table MY_TABLE

For nRec = 1 To TableInfo(MY_TABLE, TAB_INFO_NROWS)


Fetch Rec nRec From MY_TABLE

nRowID = MY_TABLE.ROWID
oFeature = MY_TABLE.OBJ
Next

Don't use this structure!!

This Fetch statement will put the table cursor at a specific row in the table, which in most case is
fine. But it has a drawback; it will fail if the specific row has been deleted. And if you haven't built-in
error handling in your application, the application will crash.

Fetch Next, on the other side, will skip the deleted records during the loop.

UPDATED: December 2, 2019

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