On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 9:50 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > VFP9SP1 > > We've got a scenario where a 3rd party has polluted our memo fields, and > I'd like to write a cleanup that takes the value of the memo field and > does a STRTRAN to get rid of garbage. Straight forward enough, right? > No, VFP is throwing an error saying "String is too long to fit." So I > check the VFP system capacities and sure enough, that's the magic number > (16777184). > > What would you advise for Plan B in this case? The memo is basically > polluted with bazillion quote marks. I tried this but it fails with the > same message: > > REPLACE comments with STRTRAN(comments,replicate(['],1000),[]) all in > MyTable ---------------------------------------
How about putting another temp memo in this table and pasting the "answer" to your problem in that new col? This way you can see if your hurting yourself. You could also try a real simple RegEx solution to extract out all the ' marks. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Mimeo.com Memphis TN 901.246-0159 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
