in reply to Re: Removing Special Characters
in thread Removing Special Characters

For a banker "%" might not be special. And we are not even touching the subject of Unicode.

CountZero

A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James