Jason: I never considered using SRPL to replace these extended characters! I'm going to investigate this.
Karen In a message dated 6/26/2012 11:48:19 AM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Karen, > You can use SKEEPI, or SRPL to clean out the unwanted characters. > > SET VAR vmyvar TEXT = NULL > SET VAR vmyvar = 'Eat' + (CHAR(10)) + (CHAR(13)) + 'Donuts' > PAUSE 2 USING .vmyvar CAPTION 'BEFORE' ICON INFO > --SET VAR vmyvar = (SRPL(.vmyvar,(CHAR(10)),NULL,0)) > --SET VAR vmyvar = (SRPL(.vmyvar,(CHAR(13)),NULL,0)) > --SET VAR vmyvar = (SRPL(.vmyvar,((CHAR(10)) + (CHAR(13))),' ',0)) > --SET VAR vmyvar = (skeepi(.vmyvar,'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz')) > PAUSE 2 USING .vmyvar CAPTION 'AFTER' ICON INFO > CLEAR VAR vmyvar > RETURN > > If you uncomment the first two SRPL lines, or just the SKEEPI line, > you will see that Eat<CR><LF>Donuts becomes EatDonuts. If you uncomment the > third SRPL line you will get Eat Donuts. You get the idea. You could use > some variation of this (adjusting the for desirable vs. undesirable > characters) in an On Exit EEP (or some other appropriate event) to clean your > input. > > > Thanks, > > Jason > >
