>>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)?

this is the complete string

April 9th Program materials
4 page Brochure
Napkin Card

this is what I am trying to replace



I tried chrtran() and it did not work
m.des1=CHRTRAN(arjthead.description,CHR(2),'')
m.des1=CHRTRAN(m.des1,CHR(1),'')