>The resulting value of NewFieldValue is "999-99-99" which sort of makes sense in that it is nine characters, but why did it not strip out the "-" in the original value? This works if I just substitute "-" for the AlphaToStrip in the TRANSFORM.
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>FieldValue = "999-99-9999"
>AlphaToStrip = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ`!@#$%*()-_=+[{]}\;:,<.>/?"'
>NewFieldValue = EVALUATE("ALLTRIM(TRANSFORM(STRTRAN(FieldValue,AlphaToStrip,''), '@R " + REPLICATE('9',FieldLength) + "'))")
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In your case you need to use CHRTRAN() function to strip unwanted chars.