LTRIM would work better for beginning characters. Tracy
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tracy Pearson Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 2:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Strip non-ASCII characters With VFP 9 you could use Rtrim(variable, 0, chr(0), chr(0xff)) Tracy -----Original Message----- From: Behalf Of Bill Kressbach Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 1:37 PM The code is for monitoring the Emergency Alert System (EAS) for a radio station. Sometimes a little noise from the receiver will add a few bytes of data to the beginning of the message while the receiver is trying to lock up. This latest one is 00 00 FF 00 FF 00 00 (HEX). These characters will sometimes confuse the software causing strange results. So I need to remove them. I am a little concerned about the amount of time required to remove them but I could try a modification of Ed's code by keeping anything between 20 and 127. Bill [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
