RE: Removing punctuation (not using arrays)

Perfect!  Thanks again for your help.

-Tracy
 Ext. 3107


-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Klement [mailto:klemscot@klements.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 4:49 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: Removing punctuation (not using arrays)



Tracy,

The routine I posted SHOULD take care of all of that...
Have you found it to be otherwise?

If you want to do it with a straight %scan/%replace, then you use
%replace with a replacement string of ''.   By specifying '', it actually
deletes the character from the string.


On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Tracy Ball wrote:

> The %scan and %replace is easy enough, however, will it eliminate the
> extra spaces?
>
> Example: "THIS, IS. A, TEST. ONLY"
>
> Even using %xlate can give me this in two statements: "THIS IS A TEST
> ONLY"
>
> But what I need is this: "THIS IS A TEST ONLY"
>

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