On Thursday 05 March 2009 01:34:29 Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: > newString = Conv(st, "UTF-8", "ASCII") > > Replace(st, "½", ".5")
Thanks RW, That got me started at least. So far: TRY wx = Conv(lp1[5], "UTF-8", "ASCII") TRY wx = Replace(wx, "½", ".5") TRY wx = Replace(wx, "¼", ".25") TRY wx = Replace(wx, "¾", ".75") seems to work. I had to put the TRY's in because 3/4 doesn't seem to handle properly otherwise. If I ever get my hands around the throat of the smart little programmer that put these chars in the input text file I'll ..... regards ted ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user