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tlbrydie2
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Good Morning,

I have a field that is to be displayed indented from the left. I modify that field for three different versions of output. (HTML,Excel & PDF).
I do this by the following code:

DESC_NEW_H/A100 = IF SGN EQ 1 AND SNO IN( 8,9,10,11) THEN '&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;' | DESC ELSE DESC;
DESC_NEW_P/A100 = IF SGN EQ 1 AND SNO IN( 8,9,10,11) THEN ' ' | DESC ELSE DESC;
DESC_NEW_Q/A100 = IF SGN EQ 1 AND SNO IN( 8,9,10,11) THEN ' ' | DESC ELSE DESC;
DESC_DISP_FIELD/A100 = IF '&FORMAT.EVAL' EQ 'HTML' THEN DESC_NEW_H ELSE
IF '&FORMAT.EVAL' EQ 'PDF' THEN DESC_NEW_P ELSE
IF '&FORMAT.EVAL' EQ 'EXL2K' THEN DESC_NEW_Q;


The spaces for the HTML and PDF versioned field is respected.
The problem is that the spaces for the Excel field are not respected and the field comes out left justified.

How do I accomplish padding spaces in front of my field for Excel output.

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



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Wep5622
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You could try creating the value using HEXBYT(). For the EURO sign I use this:
-SET &LABEL = 'Price (' | HEXBYT(128, 'A1') | ')';


I don't know what encoding Excel uses by default, it appears to be something unusual, but you could try code 160 ('nbsp' and '#160' are the same entity in HTML).

Also keep in mind that, although the name of the HEXBYT function suggests that it expects hexa-decimal input, it actually expects decimal input.


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Alan B
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Try using HEXBYT(13,'A1') for indentation in EXL2K output. Plain EXCEL output respects spaces.


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GinnyJakes
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You can use the SET SHOWBLANKS command in the SET tooI if you want to preserve leading and internal blanks in HTML and EXL2K report output. By default, HTML browsers and Excel remove leading and trailing blanks from text and compress multiple internal blanks to a single blank.


How about leaving the spaces and using the SHOWBLANKS setting? Try that and see if it works for you.


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tlbrydie2
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Thanks everyone for your responses to this issue. This problem was soulved by implementing the command below. Which allows youe code to respect/display spaces...
Thanks Again


SET SHOWBLANKS = ON

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