edit help

[Laura Brody]

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:21:59 -0500, Kroboth, Joe <joe_kroboth at chernay.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Looking for an edit to remove quote marks from a string.    The edit syntax
> is making my head hurt :-)
>

Since the edit language/syntax uses the " character as a
delimiter, you can't manipulate it from there.

In processing, use XLATE(str,chr("34"),"")

this will find all of the " characters in the field "str" and
replace them with nothing.
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