>>Hi All,
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>>Is it possible to use wildcards with the strtran function.
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>>I'd like to remove all the text between two parenthesis along with the parenthesis from a field in a table.
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>>The horse_name field is populated with data like this:
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>> Best Hanover (Best Hanover's Mommy)
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>>I want to change the field to this:
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>> Best Hanover
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>>Here's a sample of what I've tried but doesn't work.
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>>replace horse_name with strtran(horse_name,"(*)","")
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>replace horse_name with left(horse_name, at("(", horse_name)-1))

This gives me a error message "command contains unrecognized phrase/keyword"

Do you think that the strtran function can be used with wildcards?