String Search & Replace?

[Tim Fischer]

Sorry, I wasn't clear enough.  I did test it out and see that it was only
replacing single characters the way I was using it.  My "(is this true?)"
statement was to see if anyone knew a work-around for this.

Sorry for not being clear enough.

Tim Fischer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: joe at magnatechonline.com [mailto:joe at magnatechonline.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 10:07 AM
> To: Tim Fischer
> Cc: 'filePro mailing list'
> Subject: Re: String Search & Replace?
> 
> On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 09:19:15AM -0500, Tim Fischer wrote:
> > I'm running into an issue where I need to take all the "'s out of a
> string
> > and replace them with \".  It needs to be entirely dynamic as I don't
> know
> > where in the string the "'s will be.
> >
> > I've checked the xlate statement, but it looks like I can only do single
> > character replacement (is this true?) which wouldn't work as I need to
> > escape the quote.
> >
> > Obviously, I could use the mid() statement in a huge loop, but with the
> > amount of fields - and the size of fields, I'd end up taking too large
> of a
> > performance hit.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> 
> while i agree that the help for xlate does not specifically state you
> can us it on multiple occurences of the same character or string, but
> it does - in the time it took you to type your message, you could just
> as easily have typed in a simple test
> @wlf1::1=xlate(1,chr("34"),chr("92")); display; end
> 
> plugged in some sample data on screen and see it work.
> 
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