Actually you can do this in the command window in VFP 5.

Cut and paste the code below into the command window, highlight all of the code, and then press Enter, or right-click and choose Execute Selection.

>You can't work For-loop, While-loop, Scan..EndScan with simple work in command window.
>
>So, everytime you need to write a prg and run it...
>but actually, we can do it as one-line like Prolog!!
>
>Of cos, you can also to build a general form to do your work... ^_^
>and u will expand less time to recompile all on try!
>
>

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>Following is a One-line For-Loop call!
>

>**	FOR LOOP
>PROCEDURE FL	&& make one line simple For-Loop
>LPARAMETERS nStart, nEnd, cAction, cExit, cLoop
>
>DO CASE
>CASE PCOUNT() = 3
>	FOR ix = nStart TO nEnd
>		&cAction
>	ENDFOR
>
>CASE PCOUNT() = 4
>	FOR ix = nStart TO nEnd
>		&cAction
>		IF (&cExit)
>			EXIT
>		ENDIF
>	ENDFOR
>
>CASE PCOUNT() = 5
>	IF !EMPTY(cExit)
>		FOR ix = nStart TO nEnd
>			&cAction
>			IF (&cExit)
>				EXIT
>			ENDIF
>			IF (&cLoop)
>				LOOP
>			ENDIF
>		ENDFOR
>	ELSE
>		FOR ix = nStart TO nEnd
>			&cAction
>			IF (&cLoop)
>				LOOP
>			ENDIF
>		ENDFOR
>	ENDIF
>ENDCASE
>ENDPROC
>
>