>Use regular expression (RegEx) to simplify both. Although this wouldn't be a replacement < g > for VFP's powerful strtran it might do what you want:
>
>

public string StrTran(string input, string pattern,string replacement, bool ignorecase)
>{
>   return
>       Regex.Replace(input,pattern,replacement,
>	ignorecase ? RegexOptions.IgnoreCase : RegexOptions.None);
>}

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