\ in text messages?

krzychub83

Silly problem...

My client wants to use '\' in series No..
Every message box treats \ as the Environment New Line. How to force NAV to show '\' character?

Thank You

Sandeep_Prajapati

no problem ...... :P
The following msg prints the whole 'aaa\bbb\001' and not in different new lines as ....
aaa
bbb
001


str := 'aaa\bbb\001';
message('%1',str);

kine

But still, I will strongly recommend not to use this "special" character in the nos. seres. It can lead just into troubles. Try to offer him another solution (try to find out what is the real problem first - why they need this character there) - after that you can prepare some solution which will not use such a character...

kriki

The '-' would be a lot better. But best is NOT to use such characters.

krzychub83

Thank you Kine, Sandeep Prajapati
I am trying to do this, but my Client has it's own vision of NAV.

Thank You

krzychub83

Thank You kriki too

kine

krzychub83 wrote:

Thank you Kine, Sandeep Prajapati
I am trying to do this, but my Client has it's own vision of NAV.

Thank You

You need to find the arguments why to not use it, and why to use another approach.

If they are not listening, than is time to write this request on paper, write your recommendation not to use it, sign it, and than you can do what they want. But the future problems around that will cost them something... and they must know about that...

ayhan06

kriki wrote:

The '-' would be a lot better. But best is NOT to use such characters.

fyi:
math operators(*,+,-) shouldn't be used because they can led to problems in analysis reports