What is your actual use case? That is, what do you need to do with each character (print, store, operate in some other way)? Is performance an issue? What character can appear in the string (any control character, etc.)?

>Hello All,
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>I want to split a string in its distinct elements , i have the next code
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>cName = "Zakaria"
>DIMENSION aLetters(LEN(cName))
>i = 0
>FOR EACH cLetter IN aLetters
>	i = i + 1
>	aLetters[i] = SUBSTR(cName,i,1)
>	? aLetters[i] +  CHR(13)
>ENDFOR
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>

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>I'm sure this can be done simpler. Could you explain me how?
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>Thanks.