> use replace to replace "chr(13)" with what ever you like.

> replace("#string#","chr(13)"," ","ALL")

> At 10:22 AM 8/20/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>>hi. does anyone know of a way to identify that a user has
>>entered a hard
>>return into a text-area and then pull those hard returns
>>out (or replace
>>them with just a single space).  any help is greatly
>>appreciated. thanks
>>very much.
>>

The syntax should be:

replace(string,chr(13)," ","ALL")

however... not all operating systems use chr(13) as part of
the carriage return, so the best bet is to replace both
chr(13) and chr(10)... I recommend a regular expression:

rereplace(string,"[#chr(13)##chr(10)#]"," ","ALL")

hth

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