Find & Replace

[woodyinoz]

I am looking to run an automatic find and replace on some imported data. I want to replace all X's and -'s with another charcter in order to be able to run filters on them.

Has anyone got any ideas?

Thanks,

Woody.

 

[Langley]

I usually use a text editor to do this (like Wordpad) before I do an import. But that's not automated... Most of the ways I can think of are complicated.

You can probably do something with readLine(), subStr() and writeLine() if the data is in ascii format.

If it's in a table, you are stuck with a scan loop, tCursor and subStr(); or maybe even locatePattern().

Maybe someone else has a better idea.


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