>>>>>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.
>>>
>>>In this case you can do double chrtran. I used this technique a lot when I knew allowed characters.
>>I'm sorry. What's a 'double chrtran'?
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>lcBadField = 'abc%^#$12aac'
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>lcGoodChars = 'abc'
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>*lcFixedField = CHRTRAN(CHRTRAN(lcBadField, lcGoodChars, ''), lcBadField,'')
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>lcBadChars = CHRTRAN(lcBadField, lcGoodChars, '')
>lcFixedField = CHRTRAN(lcBadField, lcBadChars, REPLICATE('*', LEN(lcBadChars)))
>=MESSAGEBOX(lcFixedField)
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Thanks!