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 Purpose  | 
 Return a copy of a 
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 Syntax  | 
 x$ = REMOVE$(MainString, [ANY] MatchString)  | 
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 Remarks  | 
 The REMOVE$ function has the following parts:  | 
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 MainString  | 
 The string expression from which to remove characters.  | 
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 MatchString  | 
 The string expression to remove all occurrences of. If MatchString is not present in MainString, all of MainString is returned intact.  | 
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 ANY  | 
 If the ANY keyword is included, MatchString specifies a list of single characters to be searched for individually, a match on any one of which will cause that character to be removed from the result.  | 
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 Restrictions  | 
 REMOVE is case-sensitive.  | 
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 See also  | 
 EXTRACT$, INSTR, LTRIM$, MID$, REPLACE, RETAIN$, RIGHT$, RTRIM$, TALLY, TRIM$, VERIFY  | 
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 Example  | 
 ' The following returns "aadabra", ' removing the string "bac" x$ = REMOVE$("abacadabra", "bac") 
 ' The following returns "dr", ' removing all "b", "a", and "c" x$ = REMOVE$("abacadabra", ANY "bac")  |