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Re: Remove a quote in a string


At 12:16 19-06-2001, Rajkumar, Joseph wrote:
>     How do I remove a quote in a string.
>Ex. I have a string in a tag like
>     <NAME>O&#8242;Neill</NAME>
>
>      Now in the NAME template, I want to remove the
>quote ie (&#8242) How do I write a translate statement to remove
>that &#8242 and replace it with a quote.
>
>      This happens because Netscape gives it to me as
>O&prime;Neill, whereas I would like to see it as O'Neill.

The problem isn't so much that you need to see O'Neill as that someone 
keyed it in as O&prime;Neill (&#8242; or &#x2032;) instead of O&rsquo;Neill 
(&#8217; or &#x2019;).  Try translate($string, '&#8242;', '&#8217;').

-Chris
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