Filtering Strange characters in text

Ray G. Miller rgmiller at pacbell.net
Tue Jul 29 18:54:00 EDT 2003


  From: Stephen Quinn Barncard <stephenREVOLUTION at barncard.com>

> I can make this work in TexEdit - it can replace the offending 
> character with spaces like I need. But not the Replace command in Rev.
> 
> here's my usage:
> 
> put Replace("ñ"," ",theBlock) into theBlock
> 
> this doesn't work either...
> put Replace(numToChar(230)," ",theBlock) into theBlock
> 

Try this:
put numToChar(230) into strangeText
replace strangeText with " " in theBlock

The "replace" command in MC is verrry fast.

Ray

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