I agree with Mike that arrays are easier to work with but to answer your question
put numtochar(11) into VT replace return with VT in whatever On 2012-01-04, at 2:28 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > Are you setting your data using dgtext? If so you might change your method > so that you can set the dgdata instead. Put your data into an array with > the first key designating the row. > > So simplest form, if you have say.. a few paragraphs of txt you want to put > into your datagrid > > put mydata into tdataA[1]["thetextWithReturns"] > > Using dgData rather than dgText kinda makes having cr's in the data a moot > point. dgtext goes by rows, dgData goes by the toplevel numeric index key. > > To work with existing data you can use dgdataofline and dgdataofindex > > On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Pete <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In my haste to implement this, I realised I do not know how to define ascii >> characters to LC! Is there a function or a numeric notation to do that? >> Thanks >> Pete >> >> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 5:28 PM, stephen barncard < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> replace return with VT (vertical tab) ascii 11; do the reverse for >> display >>> in a field. VT was the "returns-in-field" line delimiter for Filemaker. >>> URLEncode/Decode can put data on one line too. >>> >>> On 2 January 2012 17:20, Pete <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Wondering if anyone has a good technique for dealing with carriage >>> returns >>>> within data loaded into a datagrid column? The dg takes the cr as the >>> end >>>> of the row which messes up the datagrid pretty badly. Seems like >> there's >>>> no alternative but to replace the cr with some displayable character >> but >>>> maybe there's another way? >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Pete >>>> Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> use-livecode mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>>> subscription preferences: >>>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> >>> Stephen Barncard >>> San Francisco Ca. USA >>> >>> more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Pete >> Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
