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    Rich Text Memo Help

    I have a table with a Ritch Text Memo field which contains three lines of text:

    Name (soft return)
    address (soft Return)
    Phone (Soft Return)

    I have a mailing label report where I just want the first two lines. I've tried creating a calculated field on the report to just get line one, but without success.

    How can I parse a Ritch Text field into individual lines.

    Thanks

    Tom
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    RE: Rich Text Memo Help

    Tom,

    Do you want the name, address and phone on one line? Or, do you want to eliminate the address and phone lines if they are empty?


    Does a calculated field like ALLTRIM(address)+" "+ALLTRIM(phone) work? I haven't tried it but you may have to:


    ALLTRIM(name)+" "+(if(.not.isblank,ALLTRIM(address)),+" "+(if(.not.isblank,ALLTRIM(phone))

    If you want to eliminate lines, there is a sample in tha manual in the address label section that shows how to do this.

    I doubt this is correct but you get the drift, I hope.


    kenn
    TYVM :) kenn

    Knowing what you can achieve will not become reality until you imagine and explore.

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      #3
      RE: Rich Text Memo Help

      Tom, I fear you're going to have trouble doing this.

      Perhaps you can export the memo field to a text file, and parse it more easily there. The memo_write_to_file() method may help, though you may find it limited to standard memo fields, not RTF's.

      Many would put this kind of structured information in ordinary fields in the table, instead of embedding them inside a memo field.

      I hope you'll succeed, and will be watching to see how it turns out.

      -- tom

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        RE: Rich Text Memo Help

        Thanks for the suggestions.

        I was copying addresses from an web site to a RTF field for a mailing list. But as previously reported, when you copy from a web site, and paste into a RTF field, sometimes you get more than you expect. I had strange characters in the beginning, and they were red in color. If I captured a hyperlink, that added characters also. The font was white in color and the font itself was something starting the @ character. Hence they did not show-up on the mailing labels.

        So for the 30 or so addresses, I created another field that was a regular memo field, then manually copied from the RTF to the regular memo field. Printed the labels and it is a done deal.

        Thanks anyway,

        Tom

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