>>>How can I use the REPLACE command with a field that contains an apostrophe in it? For example, REPLACE cPrefix WITH "Women's Hospital, Flint" WHERE blah, blah ...
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>>>thanks
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>>I tried that command just now and it worked. If you surround it with double quotes it should work. What error are you getting?
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>If the intent is to replace the field with exactly "Women's Hospital, Flint", trying putting it into a variable, like this
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>repstr = '"Women'+"'s Hospital, Flint"+'"'
I tried your way which put quotes around it, which you dont need. So I changed it to:
repstr = 'Women'+"'s Hospital, Flint"
And it replaced ok with the statement:
replace fieldname with repstr
I did not have a condition after it though.
Bret Hobbs
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