The World of Computer Software/World_Of_Computer_Software-02-386-Vol-2of3.iso/v/vsnbl220.zip/GENTRAN.TTI

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! GENTRAN.TTI
!
! This sample translation file demonstrates some of the things
! which can be done with the simple GENTRAN program.  The following
! GENTRAN directives will cause all excess spaces to be removed
! from the file, vowels to be converted to asterisks, and some other
! interesting functions.
!
! Echo the translation to the pc screen:
%TRACE
!
! Collapse the lines (remove leading and trailing blanks, and compress blanks)
%COLLAPSE
!
! Change all asterisks in the first position of the record to !s.
\POS(0) "*"\ \"!"\
!
! Replace "George" with "Harry"
!\"George"\ \"Harry"\
!
! Change all vowels to asterisks:
\ANY("AEIOUaeiou")\ \"*"\
!
! Change all periods to commas
\'.'\ \","\
!
! Convert upper or lower case J,K,L,M and N to 1,2,3,4 or 5.
\SPAN("JKLMNjklmn") . WORD\ \*(REPLACE(WORD,"JKLMNjklmn","1234512345"))\