Iteration operators let you cause certain expressions to be evaluated repeatedly. For example, the FOR-EACH operator takes two arguments: a variable and a sequence. The expressions within it will be evaluated once with the variable set to each element of the sequence.
A string is one kind of sequence. For example, this template
Letters ()
TITLE "A B C..."
BODY
FOR-EACH variable letter
sequence "abcdefg"
TEXT letter
LINEBREAK
will generate a page containing the letters a through g on separate lines.
In English, it says: for each letter in "abcdefg", display that letter followed by a linebreak.
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