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how to not display variable's length suffix

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August 30, 2013, 07:11 AM
damercytrain
how to not display variable's length suffix
hi,
for some reason when i am doing this:
-HTMLFORM BEGIN
<title>&mytitle</title>
-HTMLFORM END
-*where &mytitle is "apples"

i get 000006apples
i don't want the length suffix ("000006" part), how do i not show that?
i remember finding a post on how to fix this issue, but i can't remember how it was done and i searched the forum but can't seem to be able to find the post.


WebFOCUS 8.0
Windows, All Outputs
August 30, 2013, 10:59 AM
bug
Did you -READ this variable from an output file with AnV field? If that's the case use -READFILE to instead of -READ.


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Output: Mostly HTML, with some PDF, Excel and Lotus(!)
September 01, 2013, 05:29 PM
Waz
Or change the format before your write to the file.


Waz...

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September 03, 2013, 03:25 PM
Doug
Or -READ .&X.A6. Before your .&RealVariable.A#. and ignore the value of &X.