Carl,

I would also expected that in addition to cleaning up the data that you have
taken steps to prevent garbage from getting into your files in the first
place (you do use an input subroutine, right?).  A simple test like:

   IF RESPONSE NE OCONV(RESPONSE, "MCP") THEN ...

can test for the presence of unprintable characters in your input string.
Your subroutine should reprompt the user for data, since some "bad"
keystrokes send legal characters along with the illegal.
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