You can't do that

[Jim Asman]

--------------- Original Message ---------------
At 02:41P Tue Aug 30 2005, Jeff Harrison wrote:

> Here are some things that I never found a good way to
> do using filepro.  Please prove me wrong if you can.  
> 
> Say that I have "remove unwanted blank lines" checked
> off on my output format, but I want to conditionally
> force a blank line based on some logic in my code.  I
> have a couple of ways that I have used to do this, but
> none of them are really "good" i.e. easy to use,
> generic, portable, and intrinsic to filepro.
> 
> Here is what I have used for this in the past:
> 
> A.  Use a dummy field that you populate with a
> character that does not print on the given printer. 
> (Of course you can't use the space character for this
> because filepro assumes this would be an unwanted
> blank line.) - this solution is printer dependent.
> 

Conditionally populate a variable with chr("13") !


Jim 
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