----------------------------Thanks, Dennis. You're right, auto-trimming is great - I just didn't expect it to happen when _adding_ a space <g>.
Regards, Alastair. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dennis McGrath To: RBASE-L Mailing List Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 3:52 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: A little SRPL oddity Change SET VAR v2 TEXT = '|Blue,|Red,|Green' To SET VAR v2 TEXT = '| Blue,| Red,| Green' Any time you try to append a space to a variable the results may not be what you expect. RBASE does a great job of auto-trimming spaces which is a good thing 99.9% of the time In this case that behaviour got in your way but a minor adjustment to your routine gets around that. Dennis McGrath ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alastair Burr Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 8:52 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - A little SRPL oddity I must be missing something obvious so can any please explain what I'm doing wrong: SET VAR v1 TEXT = 'Light,Dark' SET VAR v2 TEXT = '|Blue,|Red,|Green' SET VAR vCount INTEGER = 1 SET VAR v3 = (SRPL(.v2, '|', ( (SSUB(.v1, .vCount)) + ' '), 0)) -- that's a single space added SHOW VAR v3 should give me: Light Blue,Light Red,Light Green but actually gives me: LightBlue,LightRed,LightGreen ie: no spaces. If I put a hyphen, for example, in place of the space I get hyphenated results. The obvious (to me) answer was to use a hard space (CHAR(0160)) but that causes me problems further on as a hard space is not equal to an ordinary space (obviously). The solution for that is another SRPL to replace hard spaces with ordinary ones. It just seems a long way around so am I wrong to expect var v3 to work? Thanks for any help & regards, Alastair ---------------------------- Alastair Burr St. Albans, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.8.2/1739 - Release Date: 22/10/2008 07:23
