<p>I'm looking for a way to create an online form that will update an Access database that has just a few tables. Does anyone know of a simple solution for this?</p>

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Convert.ToString(dr(columnName)).Replace("$", String.Empty)
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If you are working with a data table, then you have to unbox the value (by default its Object) to a string, so you are already creating a string, and then another with the replacement. There is really no other way to get around it, but you will only see performance differences when dealing with tens of thousands of operations.