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Guru
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How can you display < in the heading of a report?

I would like to do something like the following:

<------>
 
Posts: 406 | Location: Canada | Registered: May 31, 2004Report This Post
Virtuoso
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Your post doesn't read the same as you posted it.

DEFINE FILE HOLD2
LTSYMB/A1 WITH STU_ID = '<';
END
TABLE FILE HOLD2
HEADING
"STUDENT'S WHOSE LAST TERM ACTIVITY WAS &TERM " "

I just tried this and it worked to show the < in the heading.
 
Posts: 1317 | Location: Council Bluffs, IA | Registered: May 24, 2004Report This Post
Guru
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Is there a way of doing it without creating a define?
 
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Virtuoso
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I don't know the answer on that one, do you want to use it for a specific purpose to say less than the shorthand way?

I think I tried using it in a footing once and just went to LT to solve it.

The brain cells are getting a bit fuzzy these days.

Leah C
 
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Guru
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I was able to get < in the heading by just using &|lt.
 
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reFOCUSing, can you show me an example of this:
"I was able to get < in the heading by just using &|lt"?
Thanks.
 
Posts: 9 | Location: Boston | Registered: November 10, 2005Report This Post
Expert
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The reason this functions (in HTML) is that a web browser will replace &lt; with the left carat and &gt; with the right hand version. so this code will give you the required output -
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM DCOST
BY COUNTRY
HEADING
"&|lt;-----------------&|gt;"
END


T



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WebFOCUS App Studio 8.2.06 standalone on Windows 10 
 
Posts: 5694 | Location: United Kingdom | Registered: April 08, 2004Report This Post
Guru
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Wow this post is old. Thanks for the replies but maybe I should have told you we are displaying the reports in PDF and not HTML.
 
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Thanks, but, unfortunately, I'm working with EXL2K and this approach doesn't seem to work.
 
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Move to using a field value then -

-DEFAULT &Format = 'EXL2K'
DEFINE FILE CAR
  HEADER/A30 = IF '&Format' EQ 'HTML'  THEN '&|lt;----------------&|gt;'
          ELSE '<---------------->';
END
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM DCOST
BY COUNTRY
HEADING
"<HEADER"
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT &Format
END


T

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