>Does anyone know a simple command to get rid of all non-printable characters from a field. I have a nomenclature field and the user has been entering some carriage returns, tabs, and control characters (inadvertantly) Is there a way that I can get rid of those characters and leave the alpha numeric printable stuff. I know I can do a loop reading every character and checking for its ascii value, but what I was looking for was a function that can be used in a replace statement. TIA

I use CHRTRAN in this situation

e.g.

*-- First decide what you want to get rid of
lcBadChars = CHR(13) + CHR(10) + CHR(9) + "'-&*%$£"
*-- Then dump them
REPLACE fieldname WITH CHRTRAN( fieldname, lcBadChars, "")