Fabio,

Reference this article I posted back in 1999 about this issue. http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~CHRTRAN

Strtran() does not suffer from the performance problem, and if you are removing several characters multiple strtran() calls are still faster than chrtran. There is an O(n) algorithm for character removal over on my website in the DeQuote C++ sample.

>The implementation of CHRTRAN() it is not made in order to remove characters.
>Some hope in VFP9SP1.