You could always append "address;" then remove the final semicolon when
you are done via:
   setvar list rht(list,-2)

HTH,
 Jeff 

> I'm cobbling together a command file to assemble a list of 
> email recipients from a lookup file, using passed parms for a 
> one-to-many match with addresses, so I want the result to be 
> of the form:
> [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask] I'll start off 
> with an empty list. I'll add the first address. If I then 
> have a second address, I want to add the semi-colon and 
> space. But I cannot have a semi-colon after the last address. 
> And while there is more than one way to skin this cat, I'm 
> wondering what is the most efficient, most elegant way? 
> Adding the semicolon and space after each address will not 
> work, since the last address cannot have it. Prefixing each 
> address will not work, since I cannot have one before the 
> first address.

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