xlate question

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Williams" <matthew.d.williams at gmail.com>
To: "FilePro Mailing List" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 3:16 PM
Subject: xlate question


>I would like to replace any commas and single quotes in a field with
> blank spaces with xlate, however I can only figure it out to eliminate
> one or the other, how would I do it with multiple ascii chars?  so far
> this works to eliminate one of them:
>
> rep(15)=xlate(15,chr("34")," ")


rep(15)=xlate(15,chr("34"){",","  ")


Let me chop that up so it makes more sense visually:
xlate(  15  ,  chr("34"){","  ,  "  "  )

you don't need chr("44") for the comma, ","  will do
you only need chr for a few things that would be interpreted by fp itself as 
being part of the command syntax and anything that's not printable. so, ", 
\, form-feed, line-feed, carriage-return, etc... nothing special about 
commas in this case.

and the right-most section has 2 spaces inside the quotes
those two spaces correspond 1:1 with the 2 characters in the middle part

to show how it works better, suppose you wanted to replace all " with ^ and 
all , with ;
xlate(15,chr("34"){",","^;"  )


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>
> That eliminates all single quotes, now I would like to also remove
> commas which is chr("44"), how do I add that to the list of characters
> to translate?
>
> This is as i'm writing out to a file on a export if that helps out any...
>
> Thanks!
> -Matt
> Hale Mfg. Co.
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