[RBASE-L] - Re: CHOOSE problem - Razzak's Reply

[A. Razzak Memon]

Daniele,

In addition to my earlier suggestion, you may also want to
try the option of "FORMATTED" in your CHOOSE command.
Very Best Regards,

Razzak.

At 02:27 PM 3/20/2003 +0100,  Daniele Barbieri wrote:

 I've a column containing a text string that begin with blank characters
like
 '  abcdefghi.....'
 The command: SET VAR Varname=colname IN tablename WHERE......
 work OK and Varname contain '   abcdefghi...'  (with initial blank
characters)
 The command CHOOSE Varname FROM #VALUES FOR (........), colname.....
 return the string without the initial blank characters ( 'abcdefghi.....')


Daniele,

I believe, you are using the latest and greatest 6.5++ for Windows.

01.     Check the FONT SETtings:

        SHOW FONT

02.     Try the following quick test at the R> prompt:

        SET VAR v1 TEXT = (' ABC,DEF,GHI')

        Notice the leading blank space in front of ABC.

        CHOOSE vPick FROM #LIST .v1

        How does it look?

        Do you see the leading blank space in CHOOSE?

03.     Try various combinations with different FONT SETtings:

        SET FONT ANSI
        SET FONT OEM
        SET FONT COURIER
        SET FONT SYSTEM
Very Best Regards,

Razzak.