Miklos Szigetvari wrote: >:>Any REXX function to decide if a string contains only printable characters?
Look at functions DATATYPE and VERIFY and then come back to Binyamin's question: Define "printable characters". Perhaps, you could place a list of 'printable characters' in 'reference' and use VERIFY function to check your string against the reference. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html