by Chad M. Kovac (4 Submissions)
Category: Microsoft Office Apps/VBA
Compatability: Visual Basic 3.0
Difficulty: Advanced
Date Added: Wed 3rd February 2021
Rating: 
(2 Votes)
For use with MS Access databases mostly. - this function allows you to with strip characters from a string, replace characters in a string with other characters or strip/replace all non-alpha characters (not printable) from the string.
Inputs
strIN is the string you wish to modify
'StripChar is the character you wish to remove/replace
'ReplaceChar is the character to use in "Stripchar"s place.
'Only strIN is required.
Code Returns
Returns the submitted string with the modifications made as a string:
'ckReplace("This is a test"," ","") returns "Thisisatest"
'ckReplace("This is a test","i","x") returns "Thxs xs a test"
'ckReplace("Sometext%MoreText") where the % represents some non printing character (like a line feed or someting - would return "SometextMoreText"
'ckReplace("Sometext%MoreText",""," ") where the % represents some non printing character (like a line feed or someting - would return "Sometext MoreText"
VBcodersFunction ckReplace(StrIN As String, Optional StripChar As String = "", Optional ReplaceChar As String = "") As String
Dim x As Integer
x = 1
If StripChar <> "" Then
Do Until x <= 0 Or StripChar = ReplaceChar
x = InStr(1, StrIN, StripChar)
If x > 0 Then StrIN = left$(StrIN, x - 1) & ReplaceChar & Right$(StrIN, Len(StrIN) - (x - 1) - Len(StripChar))
Loop
Else
For x = 1 To Len(StrIN)
If x > Len(StrIN) Then Exit For
If Asc(Mid$(StrIN, x, 1)) < 32 Or Asc(Mid$(StrIN, x, 1)) > 126 Then
StrIN = left$(StrIN, x - 1) & ReplaceChar & Right$(StrIN, Len(StrIN) - (x - 1) - 1)
If ReplaceChar = "" Then x = x - 1
End If
Next
End If
ckReplace = StrIN
End Function
