Re: Hard carriage convertion?

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1998


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 18549
interpreted = N
texte = >Hi, > >I am having problems hard carriage returns being written to a database >file. I thought that they were automatically changed to a different >character when a [writefile] was used.You're not supposed to use [writefile] to write to a database, you're supposed to use [append] or [replace].If you need to use [writefile] to create a database, everything inside the [writefile] context must be formatted with real tabs and carriage returns, because the format of what you put into a [writefile] context is exactly what you get out -- and the same goes for [appendfile] and [sendmail] contexts too ... :)Sincerely, Ken Grome 808-737-6499 WebDNA Solutions mailto:ken@webdna.net http://www.webdna.net Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Hard carriage convertion? (Kenneth Grome 1998)
  2. Hard carriage convertion? (Kevin Furuta 1998)
>Hi, > >I am having problems hard carriage returns being written to a database >file. I thought that they were automatically changed to a different >character when a [writefile] was used.You're not supposed to use [writefile] to write to a database, you're supposed to use [append] or [replace].If you need to use [writefile] to create a database, everything inside the [writefile] context must be formatted with real tabs and carriage returns, because the format of what you put into a [writefile] context is exactly what you get out -- and the same goes for [appendfile] and [sendmail] contexts too ... :)Sincerely, Ken Grome 808-737-6499 WebDNA Solutions mailto:ken@webdna.net http://www.webdna.net Kenneth Grome

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