>>>>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.

Thanks. Although it would be a lot better to come up with a list of LEGAL characters. The illegal one will turn out to be rather long. Thanks again.