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At 10:58 AM 3/27/98 -0600, Scott Swaim wrote: > > I need to write a program that will remove certain punctuation from a > field. > > > eg. GFN 3 IC-656 This info is in a field that is 30 char long. > > GFN3IC656 I want to extract only this information to > another field. > > What boudl be the best solution? The characters that I want to remove are > mainly these. /?-.,and the space Scott, You could use the xlate operation to convert the target characters to a single value that will never appear in the field, like maybe x'01'. After that though, your going to need to write a loop that parses the segments between the separator characters and concatenates them in the result field. hth Pete Pete Hall peteh@inwave.com http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/ +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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