>I have some text that I converted to ascii to see what character codes were in it so I could replace them
>
>the text is
>
>April 9th Program materials

>
>the Ascii code converts to this
>65 112 114 105 108 32 57 116 104 32 80 114 111 103 114 97 109 32 109 97 116 101 114 105 97 108 115 2 1
>
>when I try m.des1=STRTRAN(description,CHR(2)+CHR(1),'') it does not replace the characters
>with a space.
>
>I need this and other information to be on one line.
>any suggestions?

I made the test here and it works well. Are you sure the last two characters are in sequence for CHR(2) and CHR(1)?