>>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
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>>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)?
Well I decided to test all from chr(1)=chr(32)

this is what finally removed whatever was moving the text to the next line

m.des1=CHRTRAN(arjthead.description,CHR(9),' ')
m.des1=CHRTRAN(m.des1,CHR(10),' ')
m.des1=CHRTRAN(m.des1,CHR(11),' ')
m.des1=CHRTRAN(m.des1,CHR(13),' ')

If any one is missing it did not work

thanks for your help