Thus it was written in the epistle of Richard Barker,
> Hi
> 
> Does anyone know a simple way in Qedit or programmatically in Quiz/Qtp that
> I can remove non US alphabetic characters.  I can do it in Quiz, but it's
> very crap and slow, testing each char, is there a better faster way.  
> 
> I'm talking to another computer system and the other system can't handle
> French/Greek/etc character sets, for example 'í'.

So far as I can tell, this should explain to Qedit what you want:

  cq "[^ -~]"(r) "" @

In case it doesn't make sense, let me take it apart for you

  cq       -- change quiet (don't show me the lines as they are changed)
  "[^ -~]" -- A regular expression consisting of a negated character class.
              It will match every character which is outside the " " to "~"
              range (adjust as appropriate :-).
  (r)      -- this is a regular expression, not a string to match
  ""       -- replace it with nothing.  You could put "." or " " here instead
              if you want to maintain line lengths.
  @        -- on all lines.

HTH,
Ted
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