You could use IF AT(...) instead of DO WHILE.
>This goes into an endless loop for me. It is not stripping out the period so it just keeps looping.
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>tcName = 'Amerson, Jr., Harry L'
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>* Strip periods
>DO WHILE AT('.',tcName) > 0
> CHRTRAN(tcName,'.','')
>ENDDO
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>Oh, and I didn't look at the help, but the intellisense was pretty clear on the syntax. I may have missed something though. Sorry if I did, but I would really like some help here. Or maybe some suggestions on a better way to do it.
Edward Pikman
Independent Consultant