Thanks to all those who responded to my original post. I posted the
clarifcation below as a reply to the original thread, but I think it was
lost in the shuffle.
I think I failed to make something clear. What I need is to selectively
replace only
certain characters when they appear in a string w
nks again to everyone who has offered help.
David
"John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> David Carpenter wrote:
> >
> > This is a list for beginners, right? So perhaps no one will be to
This is a list for beginners, right? So perhaps no one will be too annoyed
if I ask what is probably a really stupid question . . .
I have a text file with occasional strings enclosed in braces:
kdkdkiwiwdkdkdk {iwidkwidkw} kdkdkdwiwiwkdkdk . . .
I would like to use tr/// to modify the characte
