Convert as mentioned by others does a character by character replacement, so convert "abc" to "def" will convert all occurrences of "a" to "d", all occurrences of "b" to "e" and all occurrences of "c" to "f" in the target string.
If the "to" string contains less characters than the "from" string, then the "to" string will be padded with null characters. Which lets you use the following technique, which is easy to maintain/modify and is very fast, (at least on Universe). ALHA.UC = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" ALPHA.LC = OCONV(ALPHA.UC, "MCL") NUMBERS = "0123456789" OKAY.PUNCTUATION.CHARS = "-/()" * GOOD.CHARS = ALPHA.UC: ALPHA.LC: NUMBERS: OKAY.PUNCTUATION.CHARS * * INPUT SOMETHING FROM USER BAD.CHARS = SOMETHING CONVERT GOOD.CHARS TO "" IN BAD.CHARS IF (BAD.CHARS) THEN CRT "bad characters in input string ': BAD.CHARS: "'." blah, blah, blah END * * And of course, you can mix and match your constant strings to determine what GOOD.CHARS are allowable for a given input. On 4/26/2012 9:19 AM, Bob Witney wrote: > I use this : > > Bit of a sledgehammer but it works and it's quick too > > FOR CHARACTER = 127 TO 249 > CONVERT CHAR(CHARACTER) TO '' IN THIS.MESSAGE > NEXT CHARACTER > > Gets rid of all sorts of nasty webby characters :-) > > Bob _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
