>Hi. I want to be able to search my dbf (free) from a form with the "dashes, slashes and blanks" removed (for a more thourough Find).
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>I am using the following on both my search criteria and the index for my database
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CHRTRAN(itemno,'/- ','')

>with NO favorable results. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong (or an article/example)?? I am using a SEEK. Should I be using SQL?
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>Thanks, Randy
>ps: I am still in Fox 7.


Not sure if you thought about this, but if your search term was "Randy Waldman" then removing the space would change your search term to "RandyWaldman", which probably isn't what you want.