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Rule description

• FOR loop end conditions should not be hard - coded

Non-compliant Code Example

BEGIN
	<<ForLoopOnCustomer>>
	FOR i IN 1 .. CUSTOMER_TABLE.COUNT              --Non compliant code (For loop end conditions are hard-coded)
		LOOP
			IF CUSTOMER_TABLE(i) IS NOT NULL THEN
				DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT( i || ' = (' || CUSTOMER_TABLE(i).Name || ', ' || CUSTOMER_TABLE(i).PhoneNumber || ')' );
			ELSE
				DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT( i || ' IS NULL' );
			END IF;
		END LOOP ForLoopOnCustomer;
	COMMIT;
END;

Compliant Code Example

BEGIN
	<<ForLoopOnCustomer>>
	FOR i IN CUSTOMER_TABLE.FIRST .. CUSTOMER_TABLE.LAST        --Compliant code
		LOOP
			IF CUSTOMER_TABLE(i) IS NOT NULL THEN
				DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT( i || ' = (' || CUSTOMER_TABLE(i).Name || ', ' || CUSTOMER_TABLE(i).PhoneNumber || ')' );
			ELSE
				DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT( i || ' IS NULL' );
			END IF;
		END LOOP ForLoopOnCustomer;
	COMMIT;
END;