How to append an ASCII to a string?

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  eromein Member Posts: 589

  2004-12-22

  So you have a string like following:
  
  007James Bond
  
  And you want to have it like this :
  
  007->James Bond (-> = tab)
  
  Is this correct? And why want this?

  "Real programmers don't comment their code.
  If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand."

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  RachelSoon Member Posts: 202

  2004-12-22

  Yes, eromein. Your example is what i am looking for.
  
  The reason i want the string to be this manner is i am going to send out this string as an email text. It's easier to read if i have a tab to separate the information.
  
  would like my email text something like this :
  
  007 James Bond
  008 Jennifer Lopez
  009 Santa Clause

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  jm Member Posts: 156

  2004-12-22

  Hi,
  
  try this little code:

  ID   := '007';
  Name := 'James Bond';
  TabChar := 9;
  
  MESSAGE('%1',ID+FORMAT(TabChar)+Name);
  

  with following definitions:

  Name           DataType      Subtype       Length
  ID             Code       	              10
  Name           Text                        30
  TabChar        Char
  

  
  br
  Josef Metz

  br
  Josef Metz

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  RobertMo Member Posts: 484

  2004-12-22

  define a variable of data type Char:

  Name	DataType	Subtype	Length
  ch9	Char		
  

  then just assign an ascii value for this char:

  ch9:=9; //9 is ascii for tab
  

  when combining strings use STRSUBSTNO:

  MyText := STRSUBSTNO('007%1James Bond',ch9);
  

  or concatenation of strings:

  MyText := '007' + Format(ch9) + 'James Bond';
  

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  RobertMo Member Posts: 484

  2004-12-22

  It's getting dangerous to post answers. Some posts may just colide...

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  RachelSoon Member Posts: 202

  2004-12-23

  hi guys,
  Thank you very muchy.
  
  I got it now!.

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