>>>My users often copy and past text from other applications into an editbox in my application that has special characters that show up as a graphic box character. Is there an easy way to test and replace with a space for characters that are outside the basic a-z, A-Z, punctuation, etc.?
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>>Use Naomi's to remove the illegal characters. To replace them with a space try
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>>lcLegalChars="abcd123,."  etc
>>myField = CHRTRAN(myField,CHRTRAN(myField,lcLegalChars,""),SPACE(LEN(myField)))

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>Why not just;
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>myField = CHRTRAN(myField,CHRTRAN(myField,lcLegalChars," "))
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I got "Too few arguements" when I tried it. The first CHRTRAN is only getting two arguements: the original string and the illegal characters from the second CHRTRAN. It doesn't have the replacement characters.