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Thanks for all the suggestions. Based on what I got and adding some of my own I came up with this code that works for my need

* trim off leading zeros
C EVAL WrkSerial = %triml(Serial:'0')
* change all special characters to spaces
C EVAL WrkSerial = %xlate(',-.+':' ':WrkSerial)
* remove all embedded spaces
C DOW %scan(' ':%trimr(WrkSerial)) > 0
C EVAL WrkSerial = %replace('':WrkSerial:%scan(' ':WrkSerial):1)
C ENDDO

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carel Teijgeler
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 1:36 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Remove embedded characters in a string

You can use XLATE:

D OLD C
CONST('ABC-CDEF-GHI')
D NEW C
CONST('ABCDEFGHI')

C OldField:OLD XLATE NEW
NewField

With regards,
Carel Teijgeler


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On 20-11-2008 at 10:18 Mike Cunningham wrote:

Is there an easy way to remove special characters embedded in a string?
I know that %trim will remove them from before/after a string but not
inside the string. I need to be able to take a string like 'XC0-4566.999
X' and turn it into 'XC04566999X'. Removing "-", ".", blanks and anything
else not a number or letter.
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