Stripping characters out of fields

[Maclary, David]

Okay, the following is not a PH solution, but...

This task seems well suited for an editor (EDITOR, QEDIT, etc.).  It would
be trivial to do a global search and replace to get rid of the #'s with very
little coding.

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> From: 	Jayson Garrett[SMTP:Garrett@mc.edu]
> Sent: 	Wednesday, October 06, 1999 12:05 PM
> To: 	powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
> Subject: 	Stripping characters out of fields
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> Hi folks...
> 
> I'm going to be extracting some information to a non-PowerHouse system
> which can potentially have trouble if certain special characters (mainly
> the # sound) appear in the data.
> 
> What's the best way to strip # characters out of data using PH?
> 
> My platform is MPE/iX 5.5, PowerHouse 7.09.E. I'll be extracting the
> data using QTP.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions!
> 
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