The SKIP statement is only executed if there are
still enough lines on the current page. Otherwise, a new page is
started (see NEW-PAGE LINE-COUNT ).
At the beginning of a new page, SKIP only generates blank
lines if this page is the first page of the list or if this page was
explicitly requested by NEW-PAGE .
Otherwise, SKIP statements are ignored at the beginning of a
page.
At the end of the last list page, SKIP only generates blank
lines if there is more output (WRITE ,
ULINE ). Otherwise, SKIP
statements are ignored at the end of the last page.
Variant 3
SKIP TO LINE lin.
Effect
Moves the output position to the line lin . You
can move up or down to any position on the current page. The line count
starts at 1.
Example
The statement
REPORT TEST NO STANDARD PAGE HEADING.
DATA: ROW TYPE I VALUE 3.
WRITE 'Line 1'.
SKIP TO LINE 5.
WRITE 'Line 5'.
SKIP TO LINE ROW
WRITE 'Line 3'.
produces the following output:
Line 1
Line 3
Line 5
Note
The statement SKIP TO LINE lin is executed only if
the contents of lin lie between 1 and the maximum number of
lines per page (see NEW-PAGE LINE-COUNT ).
