Exporting text including carriage returns etc

[seanc]

Hi All,

I was fairly sure I had done this before, but I can't seem to get it to work now.

Basically I need to export text from my Filemaker solution in order to create a dos batch file. So, as an example I need a text calculation field to export something like:

REM Example batch file

:Start

<tab>echo hello

<tab>echo hope you can help!

:End

There's more to it obviously, but that should solve my drama....

Can this be done? So far everything I've tried converts the return and tab (well ctrl-tab) characters to something almost entirely useless....

Cheers... Sean!

[DanBrill]

I've run into the same problem. My solution is to make each line of the batch file as one record in a table and then export this, thus making each record a line in the .bat. However, there may be a cleaner way to do this with FM7's improved capacity for unicode. I'd love to see a cleaner solution if one exits.

HTH,

Dan

[seanc]

Hi Dan,

Thats the same work around I was toying with, but its going to be fairly messy, and I was hoping for a better solution. Seems like something that would be useful to plenty of people so I'm surprised it isn't better.

Guess I'll play around with v7 and see what I can come up with.

Cheers...Sean!