Except that CONVERT will take a from list and a to list. Much as Wil winds me up,he is spot on here.
I often use that trick when validating input - if say I only want numbers I will do something like INPUT INPUTVAR JUNK = CONVERT( "01234567890", "", INPUTVAR) CONVERT JUNK TO "" IN INPUTVAR It relies on CONVERT replacing the xth from-char with the xth to-char, and if the to-string is null it effectively deletes all characters in the list. Cheers, Wol On 26/04/12 01:07, Tony Gravagno wrote: > I don't recall about which platforms this applies, but CONVERT is used > to change a single character. CHANGE or SWAP (depending on platform) > changes multiple chars: > > CONVERT SINGLE1 TO SINGLE2 IN VAR > VAR = CHANGE(VAR,MULTI1,MULTI2) > VAR = SWAP(VAR,MULTI1,MULTI2) > > >> From: Wjhonson >> Doesn't >> CONVERT CHAR(10):CHAR(13) TO "" IN X.ID work? > > >> From: Greg Coelho >> Any suggestions how I can use CONVERT to strip ASCII control >> characters EC 010 and 013 (LFCR) from a variable? >> CONVERT '?' TO '' IN X.ID > > > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
