RE: Removing punctuation (not using arrays)

["Chevalier, Rick" <Rick.Chevalier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Buck,

You could also use %scan to locate the punctuation characters and %subst to
shift the positions after the punctuation left 1 position.  This would
ensure that whatever follows the punctuation remains exactly as it was and
doesn't loop through the field a position at a time multiple times for each
punctuation character (1 %scan, 1 %replace).

Rick

 -----Original Message-----
From:   Buck Calabro [mailto:Buck.Calabro@commsoft.net] 
Sent:   Wednesday, January 15, 2003 7:14 AM
To:     RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject:        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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