down the Alt key and then pressing 2+5+5 (in that sequence)
on your numeric key pad.
This typed value (displays as a space character) could be
placed in an RV and used to compare to or concatenate to
other strings.
Pat Riley
505-797-9072
At 06:51 PM 11/26/2007, you wrote:
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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