Code Error - There is more than one item with this name...

Getting Started
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Why am I getting this error?

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I’m not sure about the relevance of that particular error message, but shouldn’t line 60 be something like the following:

vWO_Name = vWO_Name.ReplaceAll(Chr(34), "X")

I hope that helps.

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I had stared and stared at the line… and totally missed that…
to the point when I tried to recreate the situation, I actually typed it in correctly :slight_smile:

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Line 60 - ReplaceAll is NOT an in place replacement as Scott noted
Given a string and a replacement it produces a new string and you’re not assigning it to anything

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Scott, thanks for pointing out my blind spot. For some reason I thought the variable was updating itself. I even had a blind-spot looking at the example on the doc help.

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I’m still not off the hook. The quotes didn’t get replaced - see image…

What’s going on?

Note: the arrow shows the code pointer location.

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are you sure they are CHR(34) quotes or “smart quotes”

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chr(34) may not be the right character
its possible those quote are smart quotes and they are a different character (often &u2018/&u2019 or &u201c/ &u201d which are the left & right pairs for single & double “smart quotes”)

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yeah… what we said :slight_smile:

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I think you guys are on to something. But how do I use that in my code? What’s the ascii character equivalent or is there another method to do the substitution?

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Maybe you can check the contents of vMO_Name (what you put in a square on your image) and see the hex representation?

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Norman mentioned above the common Unicode values for those types of quotes

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here is a topic to consider

https://forum.xojo.com/42491-how-to-replace-smart-quote-to-plain-quote-using-regex/0

unfortunatly… there is no RegEx solution,. just a series of REPLACEALL… but its something

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Like this:

then

here the chr value is 34 (hex 22), your value should be different.

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What if you put a break-point at the beginning of your While loop, and step through each iteration of your RecordSet - and drill down into each record (click on the RecordSet link in the debugger, bottom-right area of your screen-shot) to see the actual content returned from your query (before manipulating the vWO_Name string).

Does it show the contents of your WO_Name column any differently?

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Yes I did do that. It is the same.

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Alberto,

My value is different but I don’t know how to read the hex values.

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unless I miscounted the leading value is CHRB(&h93) and the trailing one is CHRB(&H94)

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[quote=443146:@Peter Greulich]Alberto,

My value is different but I don’t know how to read the hex values.

[/quote]
You have hex 93 and 94 (left double quote and right double quote), those are not standard double quotes. You need to replace chr (147) and chr(148)

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Here are some references that may help in the future.

ASCII Character Table
ANSI Character Table

The hex 93 & 94 characters are found in the ANSI Table.