CrLf Line Feed in text variable in a report

andy76

Hello,

I want to concatenate two variable in the sourceExpression of a TextBox variable multiline in a report.

var1 + ' ' + var2 prints on the same line

but I want something like:

var1 + crlf + var2 where crlf means a line feed/return to print on two lines


without creating 2 different text variables.

Is that possible? How?

Thank you

andy76

Is it enough something simple like this?

var1 +'\' + var2

It seems to work correctly...Do you agree?

Xypher

Create a global Text variable (of 2 length if you want) and set it to the following at the init of the report:

globalTextVar[1] := 13;
globalTextVar[2] := 10;

Then use globalTextVar wherever you want CrLf (of course you'd set the variable name to something a bit shorter though.)

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But with your example I believe the CrLf or '\' will show up with just blocks.

So I would recommend doing something like...

MagicNum  Integer
padChar   Text

//Depending on the size of the Textbox you will want to figure out how many 'padChar's you'll need to drop the 2nd portion of text

padChar[1] := 255;  //Define this somewhere in report init or wherever

CLEAR(globVarTextBox);

IF STRLEN(Record.Field) < MagicNum THEN
  globVarTextBox := PADSTR(globVarTextBox,(MagicNum-STRLEN(Record.Field)),padChar);

globVarTextBox += Record.Field1 + ' ' + Record.Field2;

The idea is to increase the length of the first "Field1" value enough to force the second value to drop to the next line.