Strip

[Dave Cragg]

At 3:57 pm +0200 10/7/02, Yves Coppé wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I get a problem with filter command
>
>I have a fld with lines.
>some lines end with "(*)"
>
>something like :
>xxx xxxxxx xxx
>xxx xxx (*)
>xxx xxxxxx xxx
>xxx xxxxxx (*)
>xxx xxxxxx xxxX
>
>
>I'd like to strip the "(*)" at the end of the lines

How about:

put cr after field x
replace "(*)" & cr with cr in field x
delete char -1 of field x

Cheers
Dave