Subject Re: stripping a string of special characters From Mervyn Bick <invalid@invalid.invalid> Date Sat, 14 Aug 2021 10:52:57 +0200 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started On 2021/08/14 09:34, Charlie wrote: > Hi...  Is it possible to strip a string of certain characters?  for instance in the following string I would like to remove all &  and #.  Is this possible in dbase? > > lionel-82148 gb&w scale ps-1 boxcar #777 > > Thanks for any help! > Very little isn't possible in dBASE. :-) cStr = "lionel-82148 gb&w scale ps-1 boxcar #777" cNewStr = strip_chars(cStr) ?cStr ?cNewStr The function defaults to stripping  & and # characters but if you ever need to strip other characters simply pass them as a parameter.     cNewStr = stripChars(cStr,"&#@%") function strip_chars(cStr,cToStrip)     local cNew     if argcount() = 1        cToStrip = "&#"     endif     cNew = ""        for n = 1 to len(cStr)           cChar = substr(cStr,n,1)           if not cChar$cToStrip              cNew += cChar           endif        next     return cNew Mervyn.