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OVERLAY - Quick reference

Reference

Other versions: 7.31 | 7.40 | 7.54

Syntax

OVERLAY text1 WITH text2 [ONLY mask]. 

Effect

Replaces blanks in text1 with characters in the same position in text2.

Addition

• ONLY mask
  Instead of blanks, replaces all characters that occur in the data object mask.