[Stackoverflow] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] How do I Understand the difference between FOR EACH and FOR FIRST?

[Thiru Malai]

I am new to progress and I would like to know what's the difference between FOR EACH and FOR FIRST. I tried to know but don't get understandable and acceptable reason. I have written a small query and got same result.Let me share

DEFINE TEMP-TABLE tt_data
FIELD womf AS CHARACTER
FIELD pomf AS CHARACTER.

CREATE tt_data.
ASSIGN
tt_data.womf = "BlockCar"
tt_data.pomf = "Whitecar".


FOR EACH tt_data.
DISPLAY tt_data.womf.
END.

FOR FIRST tt_data.
DISPLAY tt_data.womf.
END.



if my query is wrong then please give me an example to understand the difference please. I need to use FOR FIRST.

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