Carriage Return in datagrid data

[Michael Doub]

I agree with Mike that arrays are easier to work with but to answer your question

put numtochar(11) into VT
replace return with VT in whatever


On 2012-01-04, at 2:28 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:

> Are you setting your data using dgtext?  If so you might change your method
> so that you can set the dgdata instead. Put your data into an array with
> the first key designating the row.
> 
> So simplest form, if you have say.. a few paragraphs of txt you want to put
> into your datagrid
> 
> put mydata into tdataA[1]["thetextWithReturns"]
> 
> Using dgData rather than dgText kinda makes having cr's in the data a moot
> point. dgtext goes by rows, dgData goes by the toplevel numeric index key.
> 
> To work with existing data you can use dgdataofline and dgdataofindex
> 
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Pete <pete at mollysrevenge.com> wrote:
> 
>> In my haste to implement this, I realised I do not know how to define ascii
>> characters to LC!  Is there a function or a numeric notation to do that?
>> Thanks
>> Pete
>> 
>> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 5:28 PM, stephen barncard <
>> stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> replace return with VT (vertical tab)  ascii 11; do the reverse for
>> display
>>> in a field. VT was the "returns-in-field" line delimiter for Filemaker.
>>> URLEncode/Decode can put data on one line too.
>>> 
>>> On 2 January 2012 17:20, Pete <pete at mollysrevenge.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Wondering if anyone has a good technique for dealing with carriage
>>> returns
>>>> within data loaded into a datagrid column?  The dg takes the cr as the
>>> end
>>>> of the row which messes up the datagrid pretty badly.  Seems like
>> there's
>>>> no alternative but to replace the cr with some displayable character
>> but
>>>> maybe there's another way?
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>>>> Pete
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>>> 
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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