fIND AND REPLACE??

[Guest]

for some reason when i do a find it recognizesd the wild card characters * or
? or #. When i do a replace it doesnt. It simply replaces with a * or ? or #
or ~ or @ no matter how i use them it seems. help me

Wasted hours at work over stupid problem,
Matt K

 

[John Vinson]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:36:01 -0700, MAtt K <MAtt

for some reason when i do a find it recognizesd the wild card characters * or
? or #. When i do a replace it doesnt. It simply replaces with a * or ? or #
or ~ or @ no matter how i use them it seems. help me

Wasted hours at work over stupid problem,
Matt K

Ummmm... I'm perplexed here. * means "match any string of characters".
When you say you want to replace a field with *, what string of
characters do you have in mind!?

Please explain what you're trying to ACCOMPLISH. There's surely a way
to do it, but it probably will NOT use the method you're trying.

John W. Vinson[MVP]