Hi Bob
That is the ANSI character set – try 160 instead. Regards Clive Williams CRW-logo_small CRW Services PO Box 12 Springwood NSW 2777 Mobile: 0418 657 833 A H: (02) 4754 4151 Skype: crwservices email: [email protected] www.crwservices.com.au <http://www.crwservices.com.au/> Ostendo Consulting Partner MYOB Certified Consultant Intuit QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor Xero Certified Advisor Registered BAS Agent MYOB Accredited Trainer Cert IV Workplace Training & Assessment Cert IV Financial Services (Bookkeeping) Ostendo® adds advanced inventory, job costing, manufacturing, service and distribution to your accounting system. This e-mail message and accompanying data may contain information that is confidential and subject to legal professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message or data is prohibited. All content is to be treated as confidential unless otherwise specified, and is not to be forwarded to third parties without the prior permission of the author. If you have received this e-mail message in error please delete it and notify the sender. Although this message has been checked for viruses, it is the responsibility of the addressee to scan this message for viruses also. Neither Clive Williams nor CRW Services warrant that the information herein is free from any virus, defect or error. P PLEASE CONSIDER THE ENVIRONMENT BEFORE YOU PRINT THIS E-MAIL From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob Thompson Sent: Wednesday, 25 March 2015 10:02 To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Adding a space to the end of a variable I tried the 255, but got the "y" character at the R> on my PC. Thanks, Bob Thompson LaPorte, IN 219-363-7441 Sent from my iPod On Mar 24, 2015, at 5:52 PM, Doug Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: Bob, wasn't (CHAR(255)) a hard space? R> set echo on set var vtext = ('ABCD') set var vText = (.vText + (CHAR(32)) ) set v vlen inte = (SLEN(.vTEXT)) sho var vtext ABCD sho var vlen 4 set var vtext = ('ABCD') set var vText = (.vText + (CHAR(255)) ) set v vlen inte = (SLEN(.vTEXT)) sho var vtext ABCDÿ sho var vlen 5 ret Or maybe (CHAR(255)) was a smiley-Y, although it showed at the R>, pasted above, as a blank; email client probably made it the smiley-Y. Doug On 3/24/2015 4:43 PM, [email protected] wrote: This seems like it should be an easy task, but for some reason it is eluding me. I need to add a space to the end of a text variable, such as : set var vText = (.vText + ' ') or set var vText = (.vText + (CHAR(32)) ) Neither of these add the space. It is probably staring me in the face and I just can't see it today! Thanks, Bob
