Re: Scrubbing Bad Hex Data from a String -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Scrubbing Bad Hex Data from a String
From: Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:10:10 -0500
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On Mar 10, 2011, at 10:04 AM, rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

We need to scrub out any characters that fall outside of the a-Z, 0-9 range.

You don't need to preserve comma, period, dollar, etc. Richard? What about quotes, hyphens, accented characters in people's names, etc. etc.

Dennis' suggestion looks to be a good approach but if you need more characters than you stated it might get really ugly.

Jon P.

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