George ---

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>Assume you wanted to write a binary search routine to search an ordered list, for the sake of readability alone, you'd want to use a DO WHILE...ENDDO.
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>Or you wanted to break a delimited string down into the inidividual elements. Same thing.

So am I missing something::

cString="Hello"
nLenString=LEN(cString)
DIM cChars(nLenString)
FOR i = 1 TO nLenString
cChars(i)=SUBSTR(cString,i,1)
ENDFOR