How to format a While... Wend correctly?

[SMcNeill]

cat = to vomit??? that's what a cat is?

I gotta check my Collin's now ;-))

That's a weird definition. I searches several dictiomaries and couldn't match it, but a search on VOMIT came up with a slang phrase, "to shoot the cat".  
That's as close as I can get!

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat#Verb

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Here is my RA method tested with zebra and some of your words, no rootbeer here either but does find zebra OK


Possible Plil's list was reassembled from his letter lists???

Mine came straight from Collins 2019 Scrabble which came from you Steve, I think?

No, the list was a direct download from the 'net, without sorting (but I did filter my  own lists for shorter words and to remove some "F'" and "C" words, to make it suitable for general consumption.

The problem wasn't with the list.  It was with SINGLE losing precision counting character position with the list.  A single variable type can only got up to 16.3 million or so, before it swaps over to scientific notation.  The file is over 17 million bytes in size, and thus the issue I was having. 

You still might want to grab the version I posted as an attachment a few versions up.  It cleans out those 2 header lines and removes a blank line at the end, and makes it so you only have to look for CHR$(10) line endings instead of chr$(13) + chr$(10), which reduces overall size by 275k bytes.  (one byte for each line in the file.)