On Jul 6, 2006, at 8:29 AM, Vince Teachout wrote:
To remove all but legitimate alpha characters, use CHRTRAN
( string, "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz",
"" )
Wouldn't that remove all legitimate alpha and just leave the rest?
I think he wants:
CHRTRAN( string, ".', 1234567890", "")
The first 4 chars are period, apostrophe, comma, and space. He
could add whatever else he needs stripped out, as well.
You could always create a UDF to use in the SELECT statement, and
use the function I wrote in <http://leafe.com/archives/showMsg/270593>
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