Marc, If this is a form letter, why not explore the mail merge facilities of the report write function? Haven't quite advanced to stage yet but from following the list discussions it seems to involve using DB field types that support RTF (rich text format) data types and variables. Perhaps someone can jump in with some examples.
I agree with the rest of having unnested SRPL's. The simpler you keep it the better off you are. Jim Bentley American Celiac Society [email protected] tel: 1-504-737-3293 ________________________________ From: Bill Downall <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 10:12:15 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: SRPL limit? Marc, You won't be able to measure a difference in performance speed between the two approaches, so I'm with Karen and Dennis. When you want to modify this in 6 months, with separate commands you'll be able to make the change in a few seconds. With the nested levels, you're almost certain to have to study and fiddle for a while to make sure you get all your commas and parens in the right place, and don't break one of the other SRPLs. Bill On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:07 AM, MDRD <[email protected]> wrote: Karen The code is for my eyes only so as long as it works and I understand it that is OK for me. Separate commands may be best in case one of the vars is null I can skip that SRPL. Thanks Marc ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: RBASE-L Mailing List Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 9:38 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: SRPL limit? Wow! I have never embedded even 2 SRPLs together. I would not be able to figure out what you're doing with this statement. Unless you're doing it for for job security reasons, if you're interested in anyone else figuring out this code, I would suggest separate SRPLs! If you're doing it as a form or report variable and don't want to do multiple ones, then maybe a stored procedure that you can CALL. JMO Karen Hi I am building form letters and need to do about 20 SRPL's. Is there a better way or do I string 20 SRPL's together? The example only has 5 SRPL's SET VAR vtext = (SRPL((SRPL((SRPL((SRPL((SRPL (.vxtext, '[fname]',.vfname,1)), '[heshe]', .heshe,1)),'[himher]', .himher, 1)), + '[xx1]', .vxxmpt1,1)), '[xx2]', .vxxmpt2,1)) Thanks Marc
