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foxpro error handling

I'm currently using the Microsoft.XMLHTTP object to access websites within my program (scan through a table with URLs).
The problem is that with my current error handler, which is a simple try/catch statement, ends when an error occurs. Is there a way with error handling to continue the code, or go to the next row of a scanned table when an error occurs, rather than ending the program?
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Thank you for the super quick response. Exactly what I needed.
Just one follow up question, can I add a "loop" statement in the "catch"?
No, this is not allowed (it will generate error 2059) but you may set some variable and issue the LOOP based on this variable:
FOR i = 1 TO 5
TRY
llCatch = .F.
aa = bb
CATCH
? i
llCatch = .T.
ENDTRY
IF m.llCatch
  LOOP
ENDIF
? "No LOOP"
NEXT

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"No LOOP" should not appear.
Perfect, thank you!
Well, to pull it together (though this already is solved):

If you do something like
Try
   Scan
     oBrowser.navigate2(url)
   Endscan
Catch
  * ...
Endtry

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Then the first error makes VFP leave the code in the try block and not return there. Try Catch is not meant for overall error handling, but for catching local errors, so the solution simply is to put it inside the loop.

 
Scan
   Try
       oBrowser.navigate2(url)   
   Catch
     * log url as temporary or permanently not working
   Endtry
Endscan

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There is no need to put a loop or the LOOP command for continuation of a loop into the try..catch, neither in the try, nor in the catch block. There also is no need for Pavels construct to set a variable llCatch, then. If you put try catch inside the loop you come out of it before the endscan and therefor loop and try with the next record again, this is what you intended, isn't it? Then simply do so :)

Edit: There is no wrong or right here, about where to put the try or the loop. It depends on your intention. If you want to continue trying further records, put the try inside the loop to continue with further records. If you want to stop processing data, when the first error happens, then put the loop inside the try..catch. Still you are free to do what you want :)

Bye, Olaf.