>>>I believe that Basic (and perhaps others) have a WHILE - WEND where the code is always evaluated at least once and the loop control is at the bottom.
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>>Pascal has a REPEAT-UNTIL construct that works that way:
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>>REPEAT
>> * do something
>>UNTIL condition
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>>Tamar
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>I like the UNTIL idea. Is there a way to do that in VFP9? Should the Sedna people consider it?

You'd have to simulate it. Something maybe like:

DO WHILE .T.
  [do some stuff here]
  [do some more stuff maybe]

  * last thing before the ENDDO
  IF (check condition)
    EXIT
  ENDIF
ENDDO