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How to identify non-displaying characters in a text string?
Posted on 2013-02-01
Hello - trying to import some crap data, and I'm getting text values that have trailing non-display characters that Trim() won't... Trim...
is there a function that does the reverse of Chr(), so I can parse through and see what exactly these trailing characters are?
Thanks
is there a function that does the reverse of Chr(), so I can parse through and see what exactly these trailing characters are?
Thanks
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try this function
Function AlphaNumOnly(strIn As String) As String
Dim j As Integer
Dim varStr As String
varStr = strIn
While j < Len(varStr)
j = j + 1
Select Case Asc(Mid(varStr, j, 1))
Case 32 To 126
' do nothing
Case Else
' get rid of everything else:
varStr = Left(varStr, j - 1) & Mid(varStr, j + 1)
If j > 1 Then j = j - 1
End Select
Wend
AlphaNumOnly = varStr
End Function
Function AlphaNumOnly(strIn As String) As String
Dim j As Integer
Dim varStr As String
varStr = strIn
While j < Len(varStr)
j = j + 1
Select Case Asc(Mid(varStr, j, 1))
Case 32 To 126
' do nothing
Case Else
' get rid of everything else:
varStr = Left(varStr, j - 1) & Mid(varStr, j + 1)
If j > 1 Then j = j - 1
End Select
Wend
AlphaNumOnly = varStr
End Function
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