>>>Hi All:
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>Is there a way to say something like this:
>>>
>>>

>>>replace all cField with STRTRAN(cField, IllegalCharacter, '*')
>>>

>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Yossi
>>
>>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)
>

Yes, that would work.