>>actually, you CAN use chrtranto remove characters...
>>
>>lcTestString = "ABCDEF"
>>? chrtran( lcTestString, "BDF", "" )
>>
>>you will get
>>ACE
>
>Are you sure ?

>lcTestString = replicate("ABCDEF",1000000)
>? chrtran( lcTestString, "BDF", "" )

Yes, it works just fine. However, I don't know too many people who work with 6M strings in memory... a little clumsy.

lcTestString = replicate("ABCDEF",5)
? chrtran( lcTestString, "BDF", "" )

gives you ACEACEACEACEACE