xlate question

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Schwartz-PC Support & Services" <mschw at athenet.net>
Cc: "'FilePro Mailing List'" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 8:34 AM
Subject: RE: xlate question


> On Behalf Of Kenneth Brody
> > rep(15)=xlate(15,chr("34")chr("44")," ")
> > and that had reported a error, so count that out, I however did not
> > try with a & inbetween, that sounds like it would work but I never
> > ended up needing it.
> [...]
>
> It reported an error because you need something to join the chr("34")
> and chr("44"), such as '&'.
>
> However, if the problem with commas [for which you could have used ","
> rather than chr("34")] was because you didn't have quotes around the
> field, then placing quotes around the field would eliminate the need
> to eliminate the commas.

     I think you meant to say "used "," rather than chr("44")", Ken, or am I
not reading something correctly?

Actually what would be the correct (or best) syntax for replacing
two characters within a field using just one xlate command?  Suppose we
wanted to replace the double quotes with a period and the commas with a
tilde.  Would this work:

rep(15)=xlate(15,chr("34")&","),".~")

--------------

Yes, which I already posted exactly that explanation, except there is a typo 
above, it is:

rep(15)=xlate(15,chr("34")&",",".~")

Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
+++++[>+++[>+++++>+++++++<<-]<-]>>+.>.+++++.+++++++.-.[>+<---]>++.
filePro BBx  Linux SCO  Prosper/FACTS AutoCAD  #callahans Satriani