Hi everyone,

On a regular form with a character field I need to be able to validate that
there are no 'carriage returns' at the end of the data.

Example:
The field should contain - ABC Company

but instead it contains -
ABC Company
ABC Company
ABC Company

This is purely a human error during input.  They may be copy/pasting from a
spreadsheet and somehow do paste more than once or any other creative way
of doing this.  Unlikely they are actually typing this.  The field length
is 100 characters, 76 of which display.  But since only 1 row is displayed
it's not evident when you look at the record that the above situation
occurs.

So I want to put a filter in that will produce an error when there is a
'carriage return' (or whatever they are called these days) upon save.  But
I cannot figure out how to create that special character in the
qualification line.  I was thinking something like 'Site Name' LIKE
"%symbol" but I don't know what to put where the word symbol is.  There is
never a situation when we want the CR.

>From a Remedy perspective this whole thing doesn't even matter.  But we
have other systems that suck the data out of Remedy and they break when
they get this data.  No suitable comment available for that issue.

I'd appreciate any ideas  you may have.

Thanks,
Susan

Susan Palmer
ShopperTrak
200 W Monroe 11th Floor
Chicago, IL  60606
312-529-5325
[email protected]

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