I’m sure I’ve posted this before (under the subject “160 is the new 255”), but it never hurts repeating. Perhaps something could be added to the Help, or an FTE:
In the ASCII character set used for DOS, CHAR(255) was indeed a hard space. Windows, however, uses the ANSI character set in which CHAR(160) is the hard space. As you have noticed, ANSI CHAR(255) is the “y” with an umlaut. Regards, Stephen Markson The Pharmacy Examining Board of Canada 416.979.2431 x251 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Doug Hamilton Sent: March-24-15 6:52 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Adding a space to the end of a variable 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]<mailto:[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
