>The info is definately expected. I have a table where input is multi-national with no converters to translate the character differences. So I'm left with some English and some garbage. I need to take out the garbage(sorry).

Something like:

lnX = 1
cString = "**D  )df98 df7 HF*F*D3FHDHF&DFD3"
FOR lnI = 1 to LEN(cString) 
	lcLetter = SUBSTR(cString, lnX)
	IF ISALPHA(lcLetter) or ISDIGIT(lcLetter) or lcLetter = ' '
		lnX = lnX + 1
	ELSE  
		cString = STUFF(cString, lnX, 1, '')
	ENDIF 
ENDFOR 
?cString

This gets saves only the digits, letters and spaces. EVerything else is thrown. You could modify it to keep all the symbols you want too, but it should filter out all the unidentified characters.