>This goes into an endless loop for me. It is not stripping out the period so it just keeps looping.
>
>

>tcName = 'Amerson, Jr., Harry L'
>
>* Strip periods
>DO WHILE AT('.',tcName) > 0
>	CHRTRAN(tcName,'.','')
>ENDDO
>

>
>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.

You forgot to assign result to your variable, e.g.

tcName = chrtran(tcName, ".", "")

But why you can not remove them all at once, since that's what your code is doing anyway? E.g. chrtran as you wrote it will remove all dots, so you don't need a loop.