>>>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
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>>I use CHRTRAN in this situation
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>>e.g.
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>>*-- 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, "")
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>Thanks I will give that a try. It is just getting a list of those that dont fall in the range I need that may be a problem.

Well, if you know what you do want, you can tackle the problem from the other end:-

lcGoodChars = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
lcBadChars = CHRTRAN( FieldValue, lcGoodChars, "")
REPLACE fieldname WITH CHRTRAN( fieldname, lcBadChars, "")