Newbies Lorali Posted March 26, 2001 Newbies Share Posted March 26, 2001 I am trying to replace quotation marks in fields. The "substitute" function does not appear to work with this string: Substitute(City, """, "") I want to substitute a single quote mark in the City field with no character. Filemaker keeps telling me that I need an additional quote mark. I think it's reading the text I want to replace (a quote mark) as a quote mark used to surround text. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvis_impersonating_penguin Posted March 26, 2001 Share Posted March 26, 2001 ok, i had this problem once as well.. what i did was this.. i made a global field, and called it quote, then populated that field with a quotation mark ("). then i made my substitute field look like this. Substitute(City, quote, "") oh yes, this works best if you turn off smart quotes. (go to document preferences and uncheck "use smart quotes".) [ March 26, 2001: Message edited by: bman ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francisco Valera Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 hey, friend, I've tried that.. but it didn't work... may be i'm not doing the things well,... i just want -in general- to write ascII simbols into a chain of string without filemaker tells me that I can Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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