How to test if a field does not contain anything else than returns or tab ?

Klaus Major klaus at major-k.de
Tue Feb 3 09:22:43 EST 2009


Bonjour Andre,

> Bonjour,
>
> I need to test if a given list field in a stack contains some values  
> or if it is empty.
> Well, by "empty" I mean that the field contains not any word or  
> number. But it happens that it may include carriage returns and/or  
> tabs.
> In such cases :
> field "thisField" is empty
> return false.
>
> If there were only carriage returns, I could test if each line of  
> the field is empty;
> indeed :
> line x of fld "thisField" is empty
> returns true if the only character in the line is cr
> but returns false if there is at least one tab in the line.
>
> I just tried :
> if last char of fld "thisField" is empty  ;-))
>
> that seems working well ! but a bit strange and might be not  
> reliable ?
>
> Is there a better trick ?

I would go like this:
...
put fld "Your field here" into Field_content
replace CR with "" in Field_content
replace TAB with "" in Field_content
## replace anything else that might be necessary

if Field_content = empty then
## do your stuff...
end if
...

Hope that helps.

> Thanks for any idea
>
> Best regards from Grenoble
> André

Best

Klaus

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