>I know this is probably a one line command,but can't find it. I have some character fields that represent time 07:00, 08:45, etc
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>I need to strip the : character out and return just 0700,0845, etc

chrtran(lcString, ":", "")

although I've heard that strtran() is faster - sounds illogical to me, and I never bothered to test. The speed difference may not be anything much.