Re: Logging purchases

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1997

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 11013
interpreted = N
texte = Kenneth Grome wrote:> > >Howdy, list. I would like to begin logging purchases from my thank you> >template through an [AppendFile purchlog.db] command. All I want is four> >fields: date, IP address, sku/item/quantity/price for each item> >purchased, and the total for that purchase. Anyone know how can I write> >[lineItems] into one field in a database without having the second line> >item create a new record?> > Hi Gil,> > Have you tried this? I don't know for sure, but I believe this will do what> you want. It shouldn't put any tabs or carriage returns inside the> lineitems loop, and the only other tabs and carriage returns are the ones> you type yourself.> > I used a series of dots to separate the individual lines of line items, but> you could replace those dots with something else, as long as it's not a tab> or carriage return ... :)Thanks, Ken. Actually, I was so hung up on using some kind of an ASCIIreturn character that when you suggested using ...., for some reason itmade me realize that I could just use HTML (as in
) to do what Iwant. Now the individual items break nicely within one cell of thetable.-- Gil Poulsen, Webmaster*************************************************************** AltiM@c * Phone: (908) 469-2567 ** 126 Jerome Avenue * FAX: (908) 469-5823 ** South Bound Brook, NJ * e-mail: help@altimac.com ** 08880-1111 * WWW: http://www.altimac.com *************************************************************** Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: Logging purchases (Grant Hulbert 1997)
Re: Logging purchases (Gil Poulsen 1997)
Re: Logging purchases (Kenneth Grome 1997)
Logging purchases (Gil Poulsen 1997)

Kenneth Grome wrote:> > >Howdy, list. I would like to begin logging purchases from my thank you> >template through an [AppendFile purchlog.db] command. All I want is four> >fields: date, IP address, sku/item/quantity/price for each item> >purchased, and the total for that purchase. Anyone know how can I write> >[lineitems] into one field in a database without having the second line> >item create a new record?> > Hi Gil,> > Have you tried this? I don't know for sure, but I believe this will do what> you want. It shouldn't put any tabs or carriage returns inside the> lineitems loop, and the only other tabs and carriage returns are the ones> you type yourself.> > I used a series of dots to separate the individual lines of line items, but> you could replace those dots with something else, as long as it's not a tab> or carriage return ... :)Thanks, Ken. Actually, I was so hung up on using some kind of an ASCIIreturn character that when you suggested using ...., for some reason itmade me realize that I could just use HTML (as in
) to do what Iwant. Now the individual items break nicely within one cell of thetable.-- Gil Poulsen, Webmaster*************************************************************** AltiM@c * Phone: (908) 469-2567 ** 126 Jerome Avenue * FAX: (908) 469-5823 ** South Bound Brook, NJ * e-mail: help@altimac.com ** 08880-1111 * WWW: http://www.altimac.com *************************************************************** Gil Poulsen

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Re: Logging purchases

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