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Prashantha
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Dear Experts,

Though I can see single byte white spaces at the end of a text field in DB, we do not see them on webFOCUS report.
This is happening for both HTML and Excel.
WebFOCUS is trimming off this blnak, but we need the blank space as it is.

Any hints on this would be highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Prashanth

WebFOCUS version 7.6.8 on Windows 2003 server

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Webfocus 7.6.8
Windows 2003
Excel, HTML, PDF
 
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Danny-SRL
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Did you try SET SHOWBLANKS=ON ?


Daniel
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wf 8.202M/Win10/IIS/SSA - WrapApp Front End for WF

 
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Prashantha
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Daniel,
Thanks for your response.

Yes, already tried with SHOWBLANKS=ON.
I think SHOWBLANKS for leading sapces..

Any other set items?

Thasnk,
Prashanth


Webfocus 7.6.8
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Prashantha
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Aybody else has any tips on this.

Cheers
Prashanth


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GamP
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Yes, SHOWBLANKS is for leading and internal white space, not for trailing space.
There is no functions that can do that for you.
Having said that, you could always try to look for something else that could accomplish this (there are more ways to defur a feline, so to speak).
Consider the next example:[code]SET SHOWBLANKS=ON

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT COMPUTE TEST/A35 = ' ' | CAR | ' ' | HEXBYT(13,'A1');
BY COUNTRY BY CAR
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K
END{/code]This inserts a non-printable character at the end of the field, and because of the showblanks, it looks like trailing blanks are preserved ... just fooling the browser (and excel) a little bit ...


GamP
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Doug
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quote:
there are more ways to defur a feline
Music I like you phraseology...

When did "SHOWBLANKS" come in to play (Release #?)
 
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Prarie
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quote:
there are more ways to defur a feline


does seem a bit more humane
 
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