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RangeRem()

Deletes character(s) within a specified range of characters.

Syntax

RangeRem( <xRangeStart>, ;
          <xRangeEnd>  , ;
          <cString>      ) --> cResult

Arguments

<xRangeStart> and <xRangeEnd>

These are two single characters, or their numeric ASCII codes, marking the begin and end of the range of characters to be removed from <cString>. If <xRangeStart> is larger than <xRangeEnd>, the range is defined as <xRangeStart> to 255 and 0 to <xRangeEnd>.

<cString>

This is the character string to delete a range of characters from.

Return

The function removes all characters within the specified range and returns the modified string.

Info

See also:	PosRange(), RangeRepl()
Category:	CT:String manipulation , Character functions
Source:	ct\range.c
LIB:	xhb.lib
DLL:	xhbdll.dll

Example

// The example demonstrates results of RangeRem()

   PROCEDURE Main
      LOCAL cString := "The xHarbour Compiler"

      // remove lower case characters from "o" to "z"
      ? RangeRem( "o", "z", cString ) // result: The Hab Cmile

      // remove upper case characters from "A" to "Z"
      ? RangeRem( "A", "Z", cString ) // result: he xarbour ompiler
   RETURN