idlastro / Miscellaneous (Non-Astronomy) Procedures: REMCHAR

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NAME
REMCHAR
PURPOSE
Remove all appearances of character (char) from string (st)
CALLING SEQUENCE
REMCHAR, ST, CHAR
INPUT-OUTPUT
ST  - String from which character will be removed, scalar or vector  
INPUT
CHAR- Single character to be removed from string or all elements of a
        string array 
EXAMPLE
If a = 'a,b,c,d,e,f,g' then 
IDL> remchar,a, ','
ll give a = 'abcdefg'
REVISIONS HISTORY
Written D. Lindler October 1986
Test if empty string needs to be returned   W. Landsman  Feb 1991
Work on string arrays    W. Landsman   August 1997
Avoid 32 bit integer overflow K. Tolbert/W. Landsman Feb 2007