Return Character Substitute

Ray Horsley ray at linkitonline.com
Mon Apr 8 16:42:01 EDT 2002


on 4/8/02 12:05 PM, Yennie at aol.com at Yennie at aol.com wrote:

> Ray,
> 
> I would suggest something non-printable. For example, the delete character.
> Try checking an ASCII table, then using things such as numToChar(9). If you
> use something non-printable and consistently defined, then you won't have to
> worry about your users typing it.
> 
> Regards,
> Brian
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Thanks Brian,

Scott Rossi's suggestion of using formFeed works well with the only issue
being that it does show up as a box on screen if, for example, users need to
choose a line with a formFeed in it from a list of lines.

I'll keep messing around with it.

Ray




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