>>>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

>
>Or the regular way
>

llCondition=.t.
>do while llCondition
>   ---stuff---
>   llCondition= --- expression ---
>enddo

Not quite the same thing. Your way exits at the top of the loop, not the bottom. I realise that the result is really the same, but the aesthetics are not.