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This sort of thing was recently driving me nuts. I finally wrote a pair of library routines for setting/getting compound variables. Inside the library, expressions are received already evaluated by ARexx so you just convert to uppercase and use the RVI. This technique works when the seemingly obvious fails. You can pass a literal 'stem.1' or a build up the stemname for use in iterative loops: astem = someotherstem.1.name do i = 1 to n astr = getvar(astem'.'i) say astr end If astem evaluates to 'sam', the loop prints the values of sam.1..sam.n