RE: Removing "BAD" characters from a file

Hi Luis
That is what I used, but for the GoodChars - BadChars I had to list a string
I was hoping to somehow use the values in thefile and somehow change the SQL to use this file

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-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Luis Rodriguez
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 9:14 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Removing "BAD" characters from a file

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