Recursive Call

[Fabio]

Hi all,

What is the better way to do a Recursive call, avoiding StackOverflow???

I've Tried Something like this:

Sub MyRecursiveSub()

thread.currentthread.sleep(2000)
Call MyRecursiveSub()

End Sub

but after many executions (43011), the stack overflow will be raised.
Thanks in advance

[Larry Serflaten]

"Fabio" <fa***@glb.com.br> wrote

What is the better way to do a Recursive call, avoiding StackOverflow???
You have to give it a way to exit!

I've Tried Something like this:

Sub MyRecursiveSub()

thread.currentthread.sleep(2000)
Call MyRecursiveSub()

End Sub

but after many executions (43011), the stack overflow will be raised.

That does not really show what you want to do, does it?

If that is what you want to happen, you could write it like this to
avoid the error:

Do
Sleep(2000)
Loop

While that would do what you posted, it is not very useful...
What is it you really want to do?

LFS

[Fabio]

But I Can't permit this! Because it's a listener aplication!

there is another way???

"Larry Serflaten" <se*******@usinternet.com> wrote in message
news:OL**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

"Fabio" <fa***@glb.com.br> wrote

What is the better way to do a Recursive call, avoiding StackOverflow???

You have to give it a way to exit!

I've Tried Something like this:

Sub MyRecursiveSub()

thread.currentthread.sleep(2000)
Call MyRecursiveSub()

End Sub

but after many executions (43011), the stack overflow will be raised.

That does not really show what you want to do, does it?

If that is what you want to happen, you could write it like this to
avoid the error:

Do
Sleep(2000)
Loop

While that would do what you posted, it is not very useful...
What is it you really want to do?

LFS

[C-Services Holland b.v.]

Fabio wrote:

But I Can't permit this! Because it's a listener aplication!

there is another way???

You can't recursively call a function indefinately. At some point the
function has to return a result and close otherwise you'll end up with a
stack overflow as you've found out. Usually recursive loops are used to
search through a datatree for instance carrying the end result up to the
root. If you could tell us a bit what you are trying to accomplish, you
might get better help.

You say it's a listener application. Listening to what? A TCP/IP port?
Keyboard input?
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C-Services Holland b.v.