best way to add a new line

cwkalish · Post by **cwkalish** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 5:19 pm

Is there an easy way to write a new line in a field/container? I'd like to add a new line after the existing contents.
I can do, put return&"xyz" after fld "abc" but if I build up a field from scratch this way, I get a blank first line.
Thanks.
-Chuck

Klaus · Post by **Klaus** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 5:25 pm

Hi Chuck,

what about:

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put "xyz" into tNewLine
if fld "abc" <> EMPTY then
  put CR before tNewLine
end if
put tNewLine after fld "abc"
...

Been using this for years!

Best

Klaus

cwkalish · Post by **cwkalish** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 6:34 pm

Thanks. I thought there might be some neat way to do it without the conditional... Nice to know at least that part of my code isn't inelegant.

Klaus · Post by **Klaus** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 10:54 pm

I'm really sorry, that the only solution is not more erm... glamorous!

dunbarx · Post by **dunbarx** » Fri Jan 23, 2015 2:56 pm

I don't know about glamorous, but if you are really averse to conditionals, you could always:

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put "xyz" into line the number of lines of fld "yourField" + 1 of fld "yourField"

This does not care how many lines, or any at all, are in the field.

Craig Newman

Klaus · Post by **Klaus** » Fri Jan 23, 2015 3:04 pm

Hi Craig,

believe me, that is much more glamorous than my solution!

Best

Klaus

mattmaier · Post by **mattmaier** » Sat Jan 24, 2015 10:12 pm

Yeah, that's clever. So the number of lines returns 0 if the field is empty. Neat.

dunbarx · Post by **dunbarx** » Sun Jan 25, 2015 2:44 am

Glamorous, and now clever. Well, this is old, old magic.

Craig

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