finish the paper please, it's only 3 weeks overdue!!!!!
- "Fink, Dan" <Dan.Fink_at_mdx.com> wrote:
> I don't have code, but an idea. Instead of replacing the unprintable
> characters, could you just extract (using ASCII, CASE and ranges) the
> known
> good characters into a new variable? You might have to examine
> character by
> character, which may slow things down.
>
> Excellent challenge...must think about it (after I finish my paper
> for
> Rachel, that is!)
>
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> Hello Listers,
> I was asked if there is any procedure that could be called from a
> trigger
> to replace (with a blank) or remove all non-printable characters from
> the
> text before inserting it in the target table? The incoming data is
> from a
> Web interface and may contain underline, bold, blink, NL characters.
> Target
> column should get characters 0-9, A-Z and a-z. The data should not be
> rejected.
>
> I suggested use of 'replace', but was asked if I had anything
> already
> written to do this. And I have not.
>
> Done anyone have anything to share?
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Kirti
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