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Re: Programming Question - Escape character for apostrophe - '

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christoph Thomas)
Thu Aug 5 17:34:35 2004

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Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 23:34:23 +0200
From: Christoph Thomas <christoph.thomas@gmx.de>
Message-ID: <ceu955$hs2$1@svr7.m-online.net>

Hello Yokie,

Escape Character for ' is '. Coding: TRANSLATE PRPS_R-VERNA USING ''' '.
Your Hex Command is very interesting. Thanks for this info.

Christoph

yokie_joe@hotmail.com schrieb:
> Yokie_Joe wrote:
> 
>>Hello all
>>
>>I want to do a translate or search and replace statement which will
>>check a string for the character ' and replace it with a space. Is
>>there an escape character for ' because if I write:
>>
>>TRANSLATE PRPS_R-VERNA USING '' '.
>>
>>I get a syntax error.
>>
>>thanks in advance
>>
>>Joe
> 
> 
> Found a solution:
> 
> *27 -> HEX VALUE FOR '
> *20 -> HEX VALUE FOR SPACE
> 
> data: v_apos(2) type x value '2720'.
> TRANSLATE t_file-PRPS_R-VERNA USING v_apos.
> 

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