edit help

[Kroboth, Joe]

Thank you!

Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: Laura Brody [mailto:laura at hvcomputer.com]
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 9:55 AM
To: Kroboth, Joe; 'filepro-list at seaslug.org'
Subject: Re: edit help


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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