>Hi Sergey,
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>Thanks for your update. Your list of array functions is much appreciated as is your catch of 'wait ... to VAR'
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>I'm not sure I understand your suggestions for 'CHRTRAN, STRTRAN, and STUFF'.
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>My interpretation of the Help files indicates that these functions operate on existing variables only, i.e. there's no way to use these functions by themselves to create new variables. My interpretation of the Help files also leads me to believe that these functions do not physically change any passed variables - they only return the end result of their string processing.
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>Do you have a different interpretation?

Not really. I guess I was just trying to confuse you :)
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