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New line characters in Access memo fields - possible?

Asked by: Jeeva

New line characters in Access memo fields - possible?

I have an Access 2000 database containing some long Memo fields.

Does anyone know if and how it may be possible to embed characters into the Memo field to force a new line (i.e. effectively a new paragraph) when the Memo field is displayed by the FrontPage 2003 Database Results Wizard?

(In a similar way perhaps to the method one can use to insert extra spaces between sentences by embedding a series of   codes).

Thanks for any advice on this.  (I do not want to solve the problem by having several Memo fields replacing the single Memo field).

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Answers

 

by: hhammashPosted on 2004-10-15 at 12:45:20ID: 12322933

Hi,

This is the solution.  You put this code instead of the field name code after putting your DRW to Spooky Diet:

<%=Replace(FP_FieldVal(fp_rs," YourMemoFieldName" ),chr(10)," <br>" )%>

Regards
hhammash

 

by: JeevaPosted on 2004-10-15 at 14:10:56ID: 12323858

Thanks very much hhammash.  Excellent.  I accept your answer.  I figured out in the end, even though I didn't have a clue what Spooky Diet meant!

Now for a further 100 points, I imagine that I can use the same technique to replace any character
within the memo field by a break, not just replacing a new line character with a break.
If so, all I need to know is what the chr() value is for any particular character.  

Can you point me to a list somehwere of all the chr() values?  I particularly want the chr() value for the tilde symbol
(wavy line), which is sometimes above the hash symbol or number sign on keyboards.

Thanks if you can help with this as well.

 

by: hhammashPosted on 2004-10-15 at 22:01:33ID: 12326100

Hi Jeeva,

Spooky Diet is:
http://www.outfront.net/spooky/adv_drw_diet.htm

The list of chr():
http://www.asciitable.com/

Regards
hhammash

 

by: JeevaPosted on 2004-10-16 at 02:25:03ID: 12326567

Thanks very much hhammash!  Jeeva.

For reasons I won't waste time explaining, I decided to represent new line characters in the Access database memo field not with the usual new line character chr(10), but with the ~ tilde (wavy line) symbol, and therefore to use the modified code <%=Replace(FP_FieldVal(fp_rs," YourMemoFieldName" ),chr(126)," <br>" )%> .  This works fine.

Previously I tried doing this with the hash (number sign) symbol #, using chr(35), (rather than with the tilde symbol) and although it did replace # symbols on display with a <br> as required, it had the unfortunate side effect also of changing some other characters within the memo field on display with disastrous results, such as creating hyperlinks within the displayed memo field text, and not showing the pound currency sign as such, but as its html code form.  Are you able to explain why the # sign caused so much havoc please?  Regards.  Jeeva

 

by: hhammashPosted on 2004-10-16 at 02:51:53ID: 12326627

Hi,

Maybe because the "#" is used for hyplerlink bookmarks.

Nice approach Jeeva.

hhammash

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