Inspect and replace with double quotes

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jcarrott
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I am trying to inspect for a character "#" and the replace it with a " (double quote) on a windows system. The system does no seem to support single quotes or hex. I used "#" as a simple place holder that I wanted to replace with a double quote. Does anybody know how to do this?
John Henley
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Do you mean in COBOL?
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Phil Romov
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What are you inspecting? Most text editors have a "search and replace" function By the way, cobol does support hex: 02 WS-HEX-VALUE PIC X VALUE X"41". DISPLAY "HEX VALUE: " WS-HEX-VALUE. HEX VALUE: A