HALT Instruction

HALT message

HALT stops execution of the program. You must use HALT if you want to terminate execution from within a compiled section.

Parameters

message

(optional) You can provide a string of up to 255 characters. RATS will print the message

Normal Completion. Halt at message

in the summary at the end of the program output if this HALT is executed. This can be helpful if you use multiple HALT’s in a program.

Example

loop

menu "What Next?"

choice "Enter Data"

source indata.src

choice "Do Forecasts"

source forecast.src

choice "Quit”

halt

end menu

end loop

loops until the user chooses “Quit” from the menu.