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DaveObbie
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We have an address field that as it is returned from the database is a single line. We would like to display it in several rows like an address would normally be displayed. As luck would have it there are commas in exactly the right spots for the line breaks so we are trying to use CTRAN to swap the commas for a CR. The code looks like this:

DEFINE FILE MATERIEL_AV_VQL_WHOLESALE_RETAIL_INVENTORY
ADLT/A2000 = CTRAN(2000, ADDR_LONG_TEXT, 44, 13, ADLT);
END
Then we call ADLT in the PRINT portion of the .fex. Unfortunately what we get is the commas are successfully removed but the carriage return is not inserted. We have also tried it with a LineFeed with the same results.


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Tony A
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Dave,

Use STRREP to replace the comma with a CR and LF. You can use it to replace one or more characters with a different number of characters.

You can create these two chars by using the BYTVAL function to convert the ASCII chars for 13 and 10.

T


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Alan B
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What is your output?

For HTML you need to use 
<BR>


For PDF you need to use LINEBREAK in the stylesheet.

Use STRREP as Tony suggested.


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DaveObbie
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OK - I am using the normal line break for the HTML output and it has always worked fine. Now they want to give the user the option to run the report in PDF or PPT so this is where I have run into trouble.

I added LINEBREAK in the stylesheet and got more than I bargained for. There were unexpected linebreaks in random places and then a bunch of "noise" at the end of the legit data. The "noise" looked like this:

ı.
ı
ı
ı .
�cR�


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I have checked the data as throughly as possible. The data does not contain any of it's own linebreaks so it should only be breaking at the comma where I told it to using CTRAN. Also the does not appear to be any explanation of where the "noise" at the end of the data is coming from. Could this be a bug in CTRAN? Is there another way for me to do this besides using CTRAN? I can't figure out how to use STRREP when I want to replace a comma with a carriage return.


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Alan B
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Dave

This sounds familiar.

In the past I have used ARGLEN + CTRAN, but have never managed a one step due to my data. try this though:
lfText/A2000V = CTRAN(ARGLEN(2000, ADDR_LONG_TEXT,'I4'), ADDR_LONG_TEXT, 44, 13, lfText);

In these circumstances STRREP will not work.


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Have you tried using newline (0Ax) as follows?

quote:
DEFINE FILE MATERIEL_AV_VQL_WHOLESALE_RETAIL_INVENTORY
ADLT/A2000 = CTRAN(2000, ADDR_LONG_TEXT, 44, 10, ADLT);
END


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DaveObbie
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Alan - Thank you. That worked beautifully.


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