Re: Question about creating a file with "Null" character init

Hi, Bruce,

David Donnell sent me a copy of your FIXED.STR, so I'll take a look at that 
and see if I can figure anything out by looking at that.  I'll probably have 
questions, as it sounds pretty complex.

Thanks so much, all of you, for all your help!  I am again amazed at how 
quickly everyone helps out here.  I didn't expect to get an answer back for 
a few days at least!

Laurie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Conrad" <bruce-xMP48JVT3pBBDgjK7y7TUQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Dataperfect Users Discussion Group" 
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Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 17:51
Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Question about creating a file with "Null" character 
init


> Hi Laurie,
>
> I know that this is possible because I have done it in the past. 
> Unfortunately, all of my older machines are broken, and I can't find it. 
> It was in a database named FIXED.STR which I distributed widely many years 
> ago, and demonstrated in a one of the DataPerfect conferences held on the 
> WordPerfect campus. The database generated an executable program to 
> convert a fixed-width file into a delimited file for import purposes. 
> Maybe someone else on the list still has a copy of it. I'll keep 
> looking...
>
> I think that I defined one of the control characters to be null/zero, but 
> don't remember how I did it...
>
> Best wishes,
> Bruce
>
> Laurie Corvacho wrote:
> > Hello, all,
> >  I am trying to use a DataPerfect report to create a file which needs to 
> > contain (among other things) null characters.  How can you get a 
> > DataPerfect Report to print a null character as part of a text field in a 
> > formula?  Alt-n works for other ASCII characters, but not the null/zero. 
> > (I searched my DP mail folder but didn't find a relevant answer regarding 
> > this from prior group e-mails.  Is there a way to search the mailing list 
> > archives on the dataperfect.nl website?)  I also can create a printer 
> > code with the null in it, but I really need to be able to use it in a 
> > formula.
> >  If all else fails, is there a way to import one into a field in a record 
> > where it can be used, such as the way to use the begin and end Bold and 
> > Underline codes, as I think it was Ralph explained how to do so long ago?
> >  Thanks!
> >  Laurie
> >
> >
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