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- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.dbase-l
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 14:17:00 MET
- Sender: "Discussion on the use of the dBase language and related
- dialects" <DBASE-L@NMSUVM1.BITNET>
- From: Jan Snoek <RCIVJAN@HDETUD2.TUDELFT.NL>
- Subject: Re: Customizing Report Output
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- > Since it is a large Database, not every field is filled in every record e.g.
- > sometimes there is
- > an address but no telephone mumber etc. Now my question is: When dBASE prints
- > out a report, is there
- > any way that it can skip over unfilled/empty spaces and jump to the next fille
- > field.
-
- Hello Kishi,
-
- What do you mean? We are talking about dBASE IV I presume. Then
- a report has a field either at a fixed position or concatenated
- after the previous field. In the last case, if the previous field
- is TRIMed the current field automatically shifts left if the
- contents of the previous field does not fill-up it's space.
- To create concatenated fields: replace the "nothing" positions
- between fields with spaces.
- There is one other possible meaning of your question I could
- think of, viz. that you are printing each field at a new line and
- that you wish to avoid blank lines when fields are empty.
- I would not know an answer to that from the top of my head. If
- that is the problem, let me know and I will think of a solution.
-
- Jan Snoek
- <Jan.Snoek@RC.TUDelft.NL>
-