Re: Forcing Paragraph Breaks on Results

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1998

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 21862
interpreted = N
texte = >>Can anyone think of a way to put (forced) paragraph breaks inside the>>results of a search?>>... searching for a particular string like .(space), then>>adding an HTML

before continuing.>[ConvertChars][fieldName][/ConvertChars] will do what you want.Hahaha!Good try, but convertchars will *NOT* do this. Convertchars only works on ONE CHARACTER AT A TIME -- it cannot find two or more characters and replace them.I've been asking for a simple string replacement feature since the first beta of 2.x. But apparently it's no closer to being implemented now than it was a year and a half ago. Nearly all other database programs have this straightforward text replacement capability, but webcat still does not.A long time ago, PCS found a way to make [boldwords] put tags around a multi-character match string, so I see no reason why they cannot use a similar technique to replace one match string with a different string ...Sincerely,Ken Grome808-737-6499WebDNA Solutionsmailto:ken@webdna.nethttp://www.webdna.net Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

RE: Forcing Paragraph Breaks on Results (dave herriman 1998) RE: Forcing Paragraph Breaks on Results - Yes you can replace String for String! (Olin Lagon 1998) Re: Forcing Paragraph Breaks on Results (PCS Technical Support 1998) Re: Forcing Paragraph Breaks on Results (Dave MacLeay 1998) Re: Forcing Paragraph Breaks on Results (Kenneth Grome 1998) Re: Forcing Paragraph Breaks on Results (Kenneth Grome 1998) Re: Forcing Paragraph Breaks on Results (Kenneth Grome 1998) Re: Forcing Paragraph Breaks on Results (PCS Technical Support 1998) Re: Forcing Paragraph Breaks on Results (Dave MacLeay 1998) Forcing Paragraph Breaks on Results (dave herriman 1998)

>>Can anyone think of a way to put (forced) paragraph breaks inside the>>results of a search?>>... searching for a particular string like .(space), then>>adding an HTML

before continuing.>[convertchars][fieldName][/ConvertChars] will do what you want.Hahaha!Good try, but convertchars will *NOT* do this. Convertchars only works on ONE CHARACTER AT A TIME -- it cannot find two or more characters and replace them.I've been asking for a simple string replacement feature since the first beta of 2.x. But apparently it's no closer to being implemented now than it was a year and a half ago. Nearly all other database programs have this straightforward text replacement capability, but webcat still does not.A long time ago, PCS found a way to make [boldwords] put tags around a multi-character match string, so I see no reason why they cannot use a similar technique to replace one match string with a different string ...Sincerely,Ken Grome808-737-6499WebDNA Solutionsmailto:ken@webdna.nethttp://www.webdna.net Kenneth Grome

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