'goto" gone from computer languages or is it!

But has two calls to printf, with different format strings. More than doubles the static string space. Plus two complete printf call frames (bigger code)... one being used only once. All in the name of keeping a "structured" image. I'm guessing this is NOT how you would code this algorithm if you were programming in assembly language... gotos and other such structures are not evil - lack of understanding of when such constructs are appropriate (and not appropriate) is the real problem. "Banning" the constructs just serves to emphasize that this is not obvious to some people. Hmmm... we seem to be sailing away from the topics again! Regards, -- dave04a (at) Dave Dunfield dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com com Collector of vintage computing equipment: http://www.parse.com/~ddunfield/museum/index.html