Do While ...Loop continued working after the condition became invalid

[Anonymous]

Hello!

I write some code as

set FirstYear=2016;

Let CurrentYear = Year(Today()); //2018

......

DO while $(FirstYear)  <= $(CurrentYear)

             $(vTable)__c_Final:

                              SQL SELECT  *

                               FROM

                               $(vTable)  Where CreatedDate>= $(FirstYear)-01-01T00:00:00.000+0000 and CreatedDate<= $(FirstYear)-12-31T00:00:00.000+0000;

                                 Let  FirstYear = $(FirstYear)+1;

                                 DROP $(vTable)_Final

                                  SLEEP 1000;

LOOP

....

This code started working and continued working after the condition became invalid! It works with FirstYear = 2016 (true), 2017 (true), 2018(true), 2019 ( false!!) and so on. And when I debug it I don't see "Do.." string in debug cycle. When I write condition in 'LOOP' string, cycle works true:

DO...

LOOP  while $(FirstYear)  <= $(CurrentYear)

works true.

Could you please tell me why cycle does not   work in first case?

[Digvijay_Singh]

not sure but I think you don't need to use 'Let' in below statement as the variable is already defined at the top, looks like its kind of creating FirstYear newly inside the loop -

  Let  FirstYear = $(FirstYear)+1; change this to

FirstYear = $(FirstYear)+1;

[rwunderlich · Accepted solution]

You should not use $() around FirstYear in the Do condition:

DO while FirstYear  <= $(CurrentYear)

-Rob

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[Anonymous]

No, I used this code

FirstYear = $(FirstYear)+1; 

and had same result.

[Anonymous]

No, you code don't work too

[Anonymous]

Sorry!!!!! I hurried.

You where right!

[onmysi49]

Hello Rob,

I have a question regarding this very old post.

Today I also found out that using dollar sign expansion does not work in certain cases. See my case below:

Do while ($(#vRefDate) <= $(#vEndDate))
.
.
.
Let vRefDate = AddMonths($(#vRefDate),+1);
Loop

This does not work. I have to either move the condition to the end of the loop like this:

Do
.
.
.
Let vRefDate = AddMonths($(#vRefDate),+1);
Loop while ($(#vRefDate) <= $(#vEndDate))

Or I have to remove the dollar sign expansion from vRefDate variable in the condition like this:

Do while ((vRefDate) <= $(#vEndDate))
.
.
.
Let vRefDate = AddMonths($(#vRefDate),+1);
Loop

But my question is why? What is the cause that the Loop while works with dollar sign exp. and Do while does not? From time to time I am confused by behaviour of dollar sign expansion, which is quite tricky to understand in different use cases.

I only found this https://support.qlik.com/articles/000073866 article but that does not give me the explanation.

Thanks a lot. Have a great day.

[Marius_]

I had the same problem and removed the $() from the second condition as well, like:

 do while $(vInRes) < $(vUitRes)

->  do while vInRes < vUitRes

and it worked