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gregson06
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Anyone know how I can keep contactenated "forced" contactenated strings to stay in the same formate after I format a report to PDF?

Case goes:

DEFINE FILE MYFILE
TEST/A30 = VALUE1 || ', ' || VALUE2;
END

TABLE FILE MYFILE
PRINT
TEST
VALUE1
VALUE2
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
END

As soon as this prints, the value will retain it's original length for VALUE1 and will print something like "VALUE1 , VALUE2" instead of just "VALUE1, VALUE2".
 
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Francis Mariani
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I used the CAR file to test this out and it seems to work as expected:
DEFINE FILE CAR
TEST/A100 = CAR || ', ' || MODEL;
END

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
TEST
CAR
MODEL
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
END
You should be able to run this in your enviroment - we FocalPointers (almost) always use the CAR file for examples - anyone can run them on any environment.

I'm not sure what you mean by
quote:
will print something like "VALUE1 , VALUE2" instead of just "VALUE1, VALUE2"
both those statements look the same, except for the blank after VALUE1.


Francis


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gregson06
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Francis,

Basically here's the scenario. Let's say that the field CAR is of type A40 but only the first three characters have something, like 'Z40' and then MODEL is something like 'S-TYPE' but that one is also about A40, when I force concatenate them into a field of size A82 (for the sake of adding a comma and a space in between the two), the PDF somehow ignores the space removal and converts it back to the field's full length. So instead of 'Z40, S-TYPE' I get 'Z40~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~, S-TYPE~~~~~~~...' (the tildens being spaces in this example) Is this happening on your end? I'm running WebFOCUS 5.3

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Tony A
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Are you sure that they are actually spaces and not just some unprintable character?

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gregson06
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Tony,

Yes, basically on PDF it just jumps back to being full length. I thought it was the program too but when I ran it on basic HTML it works just fine, except when I convert it to PDF... is there a way maybe to cast it into a string that doesn't allow movement? I'm not sure if that makes sense but it's almost like the PDF format detects that it's not one field but two and splits it.
 
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