You can't do that

[Jeff Harrison]

--- Jim Asman <jlasman at telus.net> wrote:

> --------------- 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 
> --

Great.  That's one down!  I had assumed that this
would mess up filepro's line count, but it seems that
this is not the case.

Thanks!

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

Author of JHExport and JHImport.  The easiest and
fastest ways to generate code for filePro exports and imports.


		
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