Hi Laurie,
I know that this is possible because I have done it in the past.
Unfortunately, all of my older machines are broken, and I can't find it.
It was in a database named FIXED.STR which I distributed widely many
years ago, and demonstrated in a one of the DataPerfect conferences held
on the WordPerfect campus. The database generated an executable program
to convert a fixed-width file into a delimited file for import purposes.
Maybe someone else on the list still has a copy of it. I'll keep looking...
I think that I defined one of the control characters to be null/zero,
but don't remember how I did it...
Best wishes,
Bruce
Laurie Corvacho wrote:
Hello, all,
I am trying to use a DataPerfect report to create a file which needs to
contain (among other things) null characters. How can you get a
DataPerfect Report to print a null character as part of a text field in
a formula? Alt-n works for other ASCII characters, but not the
null/zero. (I searched my DP mail folder but didn't find a relevant
answer regarding this from prior group e-mails. Is there a way to
search the mailing list archives on the dataperfect.nl website?) I also
can create a printer code with the null in it, but I really need to be
able to use it in a formula.
If all else fails, is there a way to import one into a field in a record
where it can be used, such as the way to use the begin and end Bold and
Underline codes, as I think it was Ralph explained how to do so long ago?
Thanks!
Laurie
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