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  3. January 2003

RE: Removing punctuation (not using arrays)

>Also, could be that any character you translate 
>to could be valid, so translating and then
>looking for the character you translated to 
>might not be viable.

Hrm?  (waking up)  If I am trying to eliminate period, comma and hyphen and
translate all of them to a hyphen, then I could use %replace to replace all
hyphens to the empty string, right?  By definition, hyphen is not valid.

This has been a good thread.
  --buck

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