Strip periods

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Nathan Guill

I need to strip all the "." from a string for a routine I created to open a
document based on what is in the current form. Does anyone know how to do
this?

I.E. I have the string "A.E.G. Srl" I need to strip all of the periods in
that string. I don't want anything to take its place, but if that
functionality is there, I'm sure it could be used in the future.

Thanks.
 
Nathan Guill said:
I need to strip all the "." from a string for a routine I created to
open a document based on what is in the current form. Does anyone
know how to do this?

I.E. I have the string "A.E.G. Srl" I need to strip all of the
periods in that string. I don't want anything to take its place, but
if that functionality is there, I'm sure it could be used in the
future.

Thanks.
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If you are using Access 2000 or later, the built-in VBA Replace()
function can do this:

?Replace("A.E.G. Srl", ".", "")
AEG Srl

Note that, in the first released version of Access 2002, the Replace
function could be called in VBA code but not directly from a query.
That was fixed with a service pack.
 
Access 2003 VBA has a function called Replace which replaces occurrences of
sub-strings within a string with other text (which can be a zero length
string ""). Look for help on the Replace function from within the VBA editor.
 
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