Importing Degree Symbol Into Filepro

[Kenneth Brody]

On 1/25/2017 11:34 AM, William J. McEachran via Filepro-list wrote:
> I like the xlate solution for this ... one character to one character
> substitution ... your data won't overflow any intended field (provided it
> was originally sized correctly of course).

FYI -

In a Windows console, it's character 248 that's the degree symbol.

> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:50 AM, Chris Rendall via Filepro-list <
> filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm assuming you are importing the Excel file as a CSV file.  If so, I
>> would try the xlate command during import to look for chr("248") and change
>> it to a different character.

Character 248 already is the degree symbol.  (At least in a Windows console 
window.)

Is this Windows (he mentions "Excel") or *nix (he also mentions "vi")?

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Kenneth Brody