Re: & in Lookups

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 15733
interpreted = N
texte = At 11:15 AM -0800 12/18/97, Grant Hulbert is rumored to have typed: > >Putting © and ® with [CONVERTCHARS] doesn't work because Webcat converts > >them to © and ® and then chokes on the ampersand. > > I would put the [ConvertChars] around the *outside* of the entire lookup, >not inside where the parameters are. This causes the character conversion >to happen to the final result of the lookup.I tried that, too. I got some weird result. ® was superscripted by &cop (*not* ©), which was superscripted by ® (the legal notice included ®, ©, and ® in that order). There was no text after this.I really like John's [SEARCH] idea. I'll give it a whirl.MichaelMichael Winston *By Phone!: (503)/652/8815 x341 Internet Coordinator *By e-mail!: michaelw@dhorse.com Dark Horse Comics, Inc. *By web!: http://www.dhorse.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
At 11:15 AM -0800 12/18/97, Grant Hulbert is rumored to have typed: > >Putting © and ® with [convertchars] doesn't work because Webcat converts > >them to © and ® and then chokes on the ampersand. > > I would put the [convertchars] around the *outside* of the entire lookup, >not inside where the parameters are. This causes the character conversion >to happen to the final result of the lookup.I tried that, too. I got some weird result. ® was superscripted by &cop (*not* ©), which was superscripted by ® (the legal notice included ®, ©, and ® in that order). There was no text after this.I really like John's [search] idea. I'll give it a whirl.MichaelMichael Winston *By Phone!: (503)/652/8815 x341 Internet Coordinator *By e-mail!: michaelw@dhorse.com Dark Horse Comics, Inc. *By web!: http://www.dhorse.com/ Michael Winston

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