>Hi All:
>
>How do I remove duplicate characters in a string:
>
>

>Bigstring = 'cattttccv'
>NonDupeString = NonDupe(BigString)
>
>* Result = 'catv'
>

The simplest way would be to loop through the big string and check if the current character is already in the result. If not, add it.

lpara tcBig
c=""
for i=1 to len(tcBig)
   ch=subs(tcbig, i, 1)
   if not ch$c
      c=c+ch
  endif
endfor
return c