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rc
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All,

Have an ampersand in the string that is passed in.

When I use something like this
HEADING
""
""
"&BR"
""
And the value is in &BR is "Bill & Jake"

I get "Bill" only.
What is the work around for this problem?
Thanks in advance.
 
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Kamesh
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If that value is hardcoded one, then you can make that as Bill & amp Jake.


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reFOCUSing
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Here is something else you can try:
-SET &STRING = 'Bill &| Jake';
-TYPE STRING: &STRING


Also if you are getting the string passed from a GUI you could ascii encode the string. We did this and it works great.

Your url should look something like this:
http://servername/ibi_apps/WFServlet?IBIF_ex=report.fex&HEADING=Bill+%26+Jake

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susannah
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I decided to replace all the & in my inbound character strings with + using the CTRAN function.
MYFIELD/A30=CTRAN(MYFIELD,30,38,43,MYFIELD);
ascii for & is 38 and for + is 43
Cheating, i know,
but works for me!



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rc
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Used the recommended suggestion from reFocusing in my VB.net code and it worked like a charm.
 
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