>Is the a command or routine I can use to look at a string to determine if they have any characters that are not A-Z or comma? I am looking for string that may contain things such as "/", "&", etc....
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lcStr = "Is the a command or routine I can use"
lcLetters = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ,"
IF LEN(CHRTRAN(lcStr, lcLetters, "")) = LEN(lcStr)
  *There're no illigal characters in the string
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