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Ramkumar - Webfous
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Hi All,

This should be simple someway. But I tried to make it work. 

 
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
CAR
COUNTRY
MODEL
HEADING
"<-----DETAILS------->"
END

-EXIT


I neeed to show like this in my HEAIDNG.

 "<-----DETAILS------->"


But while using < [Greater than Symbol) It expects a Field defenition with the name
-----DETAILS...

I tried > > etc. They dont work out...

Is there any Substitution character or Escape char to show GT symbol in Header Footer Texts ?

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Kerry,


Thanks,

Ramkumar.
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Ramkumar - Webfous
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One way I could resolve this is using a DEFINE Field. But donno whether It is the right way to do. Suggestions please... ?

DEFINE FILE CAR
  DETDET/A100 = '<-----DETAILS------->';
END


TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
CAR
COUNTRY
MODEL
HEADING
"<DETDET"
END

-EXIT


Thanks,

Ramkumar.
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HTML/PDF/EXCEL/AHTML/XML/HTML5
 
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atturhari
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You could take a look at

http://forums.informationbuild...=227105304#227105304


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Posts: 165 | Registered: September 29, 2008Report This Post
Wep5622
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Interesting issue.

If your output is HTML you should probably be using entities:
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
CAR
COUNTRY
MODEL
HEADING
"&|lt;-----DETAILS-------&|gt;"
END


Gosh, the report painter can't handle content like yours at all it seems! Trying to edit that line it removes its contents either when trying to remove a single character (using backspace) or when saving the file while the edit-cursor is in that line.
I'd expect it to handle the escaping at least, turning special characters in HTML- (or possibly just XML-) entities if the output will be HTML.


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Ramkumar - Webfous
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Hi Wep,

Thank you for your reply and Suggestion. What you have told is what happening inside, while the FEX runs...

This works fine with HTML. But I need to do the same for EXCEL as well as PDF.


Thanks,

Ramkumar.
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Ramkumar - Webfous
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Hi Hari,

Thank you for the Link. Will look at that.


Thanks,

Ramkumar.
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RReeder
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CTRAN is the function you need. The help files explain CTRAN quite well and gives you the ASCII codes you need to do the changes.

I had to use this just to get a double quote to show up in the header.

Here is my example:

COMPUTE QUOTEB/A25 = 'PART _B_ (Limerock / RAP)'; NOPRINT
COMPUTE TRANB/A25 = CTRAN(25, QUOTEB, 95, 34, TRANB); NOPRINT


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Waz
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Ramkumar, you hit the nail on the head with your own post.

Creating a field with the < and > chars is the best way.

WebFOCUS will thinks that a field comes after the < character. By making it data it is shown and not evalulated.


Waz...

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Ramkumar - Webfous
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Thanks Waz... That way I could resolve this issue.


Thanks,

Ramkumar.
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