$oldstring:=Char(92)
$newString:=Char(Quote)

On Mon, 23 Jan 2017 21:24:09 +0000, Peter Mew wrote:
> Hi
> I am importing some text, which appears to have apostrophes at various
> points in the text file.
> Investigation shows that some of these characters evaluate to "'"and others
> to "\'92"
> I would like to change them all to char(39)
> but this expression does not work
> 
> Repeat
> RECEIVE PACKET($importref;$receiveVar;Char(10))
> 
> $oldString:="\\'92"
> $newString:="'"
> $ReceiveVar:=Replace string($ReceiveVar;$oldString;$NewString)
> 
> 
> APPEND TO ARRAY(ImportArray;$receiveVar)
> Until (OK=0)
> 
> double \\ to escape the single \
> any ideas how I can make this work?
> thanks
> -pm
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