Question

I’m migrating a TSQL stored procedure to PL/SQL and have encountered a problem – the lack of a CONTINUE keyword in Oracle 10g.

I’ve read that Oracle 11g has this as a new feature, but upgrading is not an option unfortunately.

Is there any alternative to CONTINUE in 10g? I don’t believe it’s practical to restructure the logic of the SP as a work-around, because I have an outer loop, an IF, then a nested IF, then the CONTINUE at the end of a statement block within that IF.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, cheers.

Answer 1

You can simulate a continue using goto and labels.

DECLARE    done  BOOLEAN; BEGIN    FOR i IN 1..50 LOOP       IF done THEN          GOTO end_loop;       END IF;    <<end_loop>>  -- not allowed unless an executable statement follows    NULL; -- add NULL statement to avoid error    END LOOP;  -- raises an error without the previous NULL END;