>>Hi All:
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>>I want to check fields in a table for illegal characters and replace them with '*'. This is because I'm running a program that converts table data to XML and the program chokes on illegal characters.
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>>Is there a way to say something like this:
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>>replace all cField with STRTRAN(cField, IllegalCharacter, '*')
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>>Thanks,
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>>Yossi
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>Yes, use CHRTRAN instead.

If I understand this correctly, I would have to build a string of illegal characters first. Something like:

lcNotLegal = chr(1) + chr(2) + chr(3) + .........
lcReplacement = replicate('*', len(lcNotLegal))
replace all cField with CHRTRAN(cField, lcNotLegal, lcReplacement)