has anyone been able to force a cr/lf into a text field, (not with html br tag), so that it would be respected in a pdf output?
newfield/A200=oldfield1 | ? | oldfield2;
its the value of the ? field i'm looking for.
If i could find an example of one, (they usually show up as a little square box in a txt file), i could copy it and paste into a BYTVAL function to grab the HEXBYT of it, but i can't find one, so i tried to make one, no luck so far.

Susannah
I know my colleague has found a solution for this.
He does a replacement of a certain character with the formula STRREP, but the main thing is the cr/lf character.

Something like "\x0d\x0a" ?? or 0x0D and 0x0A ??

I'll let you know tomorrow.

oh...dank u , Amsterdam

I think I use CTRAN 10 for a line feed and LINEBREAK=LF in the stylesheet.

Susannah

What Alan does is exactly what we do with some smart remarks.
The code LINEBREAK=LF is removed when you open the report in the GUI (7.1.4)

And we put an empty character before the "10".
PDF seems to have the "functionality" of removing one character before this one.

You can translate the normal charcaters for linefeed wit the CTRAN formula.

Frank, sorry i don't understand. Can you show me an example?

That sounded like Dutch to me too

Well an example....

Suppose you put an "^#" instead of a normal CRLF in your document then

TEMP_BREAK_1/A2='^#';
TEMP_BREAK_2/A2=CTRAN(2, TEMP_BREAK_1, 35, 10, TEMP_BREAK_2);
PDF_BREAK/A2=CTRAN(2, TEMP_BREAK_2, 94, 0, PDF_BREAK);

This translate that text to a PDF ready formatted field.

The formula TEMP_BREAK_2 translates the "#' to the proper LF character (10) and the secand command puts a non readable character in front of that by changing the "^".
Now together this should do it.
Maybe there is a better way....

I couldn't get that to work with this code (Win, v765):

SET HOLDLIST=PRINTONLY
SET ASNAMES=ON
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT

COMPUTE TEMP_BREAK_1/A2='^#'; NOPRINT
COMPUTE TEMP_BREAK_2/A2=CTRAN(2, TEMP_BREAK_1, 35, 10, TEMP_BREAK_2); NOPRINT
COMPUTE PDF_BREAK/A2=CTRAN(2, TEMP_BREAK_2, 94, 0, PDF_BREAK); NOPRINT

COMPUTE TEST1/A100 = EDIT(COUNTRY,'99999$$$$$') | PDF_BREAK | EDIT(COUNTRY,'$$$$$99999');

BY COUNTRY NOPRINT
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
END

Francis

in your country fields there is not something like "^#" you now just put some space in the field.

if you first put the "^#" into the country field it would work. (I hope)

NEWCOUNTRY/A25=EDIT(COUNTRY,'999999')||'^#'||EDIT(COUNTRY,'$$$$$$9999999999999');

S,

You can also use STRREP as well, which is the method I prefer, I also use a carriage return with the linefeed.

STRREP(100, TEST1, 2, '^#', 2, HEXBYT(13, 'A1')|HEXBYT(10, 'A1'), 100, REAL_LF);

However, it still needs the stylesheet setting LINEBREAK=LF, as per Alan, to actually get the carriage return / linefeed to impact the output.

T

T, can you put this into a car fex?
i'm just not getting it .
are you saying
create a character/A2 = HEXBYT(13,'A1')|HEXBYT(10,'A1');
stick that intothe middle of my output
new/A10=OLD | character | OLD2;
If so,
then where does the LINEBREAK=LF go?
is it a style sheet attribute like
TYPE=DATA,COLUMN=new,LINEBREAK=LF ??
or am i making this all up?

SET HOLDLIST=PRINTONLY
SET ASNAMES=ON
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT

COMPUTE TEMP_BREAK_1/A2='^#'; NOPRINT
COMPUTE TEMP_BREAK_2/A2=CTRAN(2, TEMP_BREAK_1, 35, 10, TEMP_BREAK_2); NOPRINT
COMPUTE PDF_BREAK/A2=CTRAN(2, TEMP_BREAK_2, 94, 0, PDF_BREAK); NOPRINT

COMPUTE TEST1/A100 = EDIT(COUNTRY,'99999$$$$$') | PDF_BREAK | EDIT(COUNTRY,'$$$$$99999');

BY COUNTRY NOPRINT
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=REPORT,LINEBREAK='LF',$
ENDSTYLE
END

This works in 7.6.5.

DEFINE FILE CAR
  CR/A1 = HEXBYT(13, 'A1');
  LF/A1 = HEXBYT(10, 'A1');
  CRLF/A2 = CR || LF;
 
  ABC5/A30=CAR || CRLF || COUNTRY;
END
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM ABC5 BY CAR BY COUNTRY
      
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=REPORT,LINEBREAK='CRLF',$
ENDSTYLE
END

GOT IT!
THANK YOU T, FRANKIE, AMSTERDAM,ALAN!
'Nashville Iced Tea' on me!

This works in 7.1.3 too.

all together...!

Thanks for the code Frank. It will come in handy.

quote:

'Nashville Iced Tea'

Yummy