Re: Removing "BAD" characters from a file -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Removing "BAD" characters from a file
From: Luis Rodriguez <luisro58@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 09:44:19 -0430
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Alan,

SQL has a function called TRANSLATE. In theory you could have something
like this:

update myfile set field = translate(field, GoodChars, BadChars)

So, if you have your Bad and Good chars data as a single field, this should
(I think) work...

Regards,

Luis

Luis Rodriguez

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