Display \ character

abartonicek

I searched and I couldn't find the solution so...

Is it possible to show a \ character in a message and NOT causing a new line?

kriki

Try:
MESSAGE('This is a backslash:%1','\');

arindom

kriki is right

abartonicek

OK, this works
But my reall problem is how to filter with \ character in the filter string

IF I try:

rec.SETFILTER(SomeField,'%1','Word1\Word2');
MESSAGE(rec.GETFILTER(SomeField));

then the resulting message is:
Word1
Word2

arindom

IF I try:Code:
rec.SETFILTER(SomeField,'%1','Word1\Word2');
MESSAGE(rec.GETFILTER(SomeField));

then the resulting message is:
Word1
Word2


This right b'coz ' 'Word1\Word2' is charecter constant

U have to write message as
MESSAGE('%1', rec.GETFILTER(SomeField));


Then try

bappaditya44

Use
MESSAGE('%1',rec.GETFILTER(SomeField)); instead of
MESSAGE(rec.GETFILTER(SomeField));

abartonicek

OK, thx.
That MESSAGE(rec.GETFILTER(SomeField)); was just for testing...
The real problem was setting filter with \ character.

BTW, I used another filter (without \ character) that worked just as well.

AntidotE

[SOLVED]
Hello, I encountered such problem, but in a little another key...
I need to show CONFIRM message, which contains filename with full path, e.g. 'Do you want to delete C:\folder\file.txt?'.
If I use something like this

IF CONFIRM(STRSUBSTNO(Text001,FileName)) THEN ...

where

Text001 TextConst 'Do you want to delete %1?'
FileName Text250

I get the following:

Do you want to delete C:
folder
file.txt?

I tried to use FORMAT(FileName), CONVERTSTR(FileName,'\',Character) where Character is Char and = '\'...
The result is the same...

Then I solved the problem by not using STRSUBSTNO in CONFIRM:

IF CONFIRM(Text001,TRUE,FileName) THEN...