>Hi Sean,
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>>I have solved my many DB connectivity problems and was wondering what function I would use to locate a character in a field and replace it with something else ie make smith,charles smith charles or something like that. TIA
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>You have two choices, CHRTRAN() and STRTRAN().
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>Chrtran() is faster because it only does searches for one character:
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Actually, I believe that Dave Frankenbach found this not to be the case recently; the time on STRTRAN() was ~O(n) whereas CHRTRAN() ~O(n^2) on performing substitutions.

>lcText = chrtran('smith, charles', ',', '')
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>returns "smith charles". It also replaces every found occurenece:
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>lcText = chrtran('s,m,i,th, charles', ',', '')
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>also returns "smith charles"
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>Strtran() can find and replace whole strings with whole strings, look in the help for more info.