ascii character - removing chars from string

[John Machin]

On 4/07/2006 9:27 AM, bruce wrote:
> hi...
> 
> i'm running into a problem where i'm seeing non-ascii chars in the parsing
> i'm doing. in looking through various docs, i can't find functions to
> remove/restrict strings to valid ascii chars.
> 

It's possible that you would be better off handling those characters in 
some fashion other than blowing them away. What are the characters that 
you are seeing, and what is the problem that they are causing you?