A first chrtran() can replace all the desired characters with an empty string. What remains in the result will contain all undesired characters; use it again, with chrtran(), to replace the undesired characters with an empty string. Only the desired characters will remain.
>Hi all,
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>I have used this line to test and works fine
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>STRTRAN(ALLTR("xxx'xxxxxx"), "'" , "" ) gives me xxxxxxxxx GOOD output.
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>what happened if I like to replace everything other THAN THAN
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>letters,numbers,space,period,dash,underscore,brackets
>A..Z, a..z, 0..9, space, . , - , _ , ()
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>i.e :
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>' with blank
>" with blank
>; with blank
>? with blank
>....
>....
>...
>
>in the single process if possible.
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>Any advice or coding samples would be really appreciated .
>TIA
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