>Hi Masters,
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>How can I remove the double quatation marks in a field? For example, I have a field called "firstname", and after each record, it comes with a ", like Sam", Eric", John", ect. The file was converted from text format. What command should I use to remove them? I tried to use the command like "REPLACE ALL FIRSTNAME WITH STRTRAN(FIRSTNAME,""",""), but it didn't work. The message error is ")missing". I am using FoxPro 2.6 for Windows. Your help will greatly apprecialted.
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>I can be reached at szhong@startext.net
>
>Sam Zhong

REPLACE ALL FIRSTNAME WITH STRTRAN(FIRSTNAME,'"',"") should work.

When you use either ' (quote) or " (double quote) as delimitators for char strings in FoxPro.

Vlad