REMOVE$ function

Purpose | Return a copy of a string with characters or strings removed.
Syntax | x$ = REMOVE$(MainString, [ANY] MatchString)
Remarks | The REMOVE$ function has the following parts:
MainString | The string expression from which to remove characters.
MatchString | The string expression to remove all occurrences of. If MatchString is not present in MainString, all of MainString is returned intact.
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.
Restrictions | REMOVE is case-sensitive.
See also | CLIP$, EXTRACT$, INSTR, LTRIM$, MID$, REPLACE, RETAIN$, RIGHT$, RTRIM$, SHRINK$, TALLY, TRIM$, UNWRAP$, VERIFY

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")