Thanks for correcting me, I forgot about checking the type of the field :(

The count of fields is finite, but since I want to stop as soon as I find a "Y", I prefer the DO WHILE loop option because I'm allergic to EXIT in a loop.

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>Danger Will Robinson! You've gone and assumed that all fields are a character type...at least check TYPE(laStruct[lnI,1]) to make sure it's "C"
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>Also, since the count of fields is finite, I'd probably use a FOR...NEXT loop.