Stop
Halts program execution, and waits for a key press before ending the program.
Stop
retval
Halts the execution of the program and stands by. It's provided as a help to debugging, as it preserves the memory and doesn't close files. For normal program termination the End keyword should be used. An optional return value, an integer, can be specified to return an error code to the system. If no return value is given, a value of 0 is automatically returned.
Syntax
Usage
Stop
Parameters
retval
Error code returned to system.
Description
Halts the execution of the program and stands by. It's provided as a help to debugging, as it preserves the memory and doesn't close files. For normal program termination the End keyword should be used. An optional return value, an integer, can be specified to return an error code to the system. If no return value is given, a value of 0 is automatically returned.
Example
Print "this text is shown"
Sleep
Stop
Print "this text will never be shown"
Sleep
Stop
Print "this text will never be shown"
Differences from QB
- None
See also
