Can Data Viewer show invisibles?

[Kent Searight]

Hi all,

Does anyone know how to make Data Viewer show invisibles (like carriage return symbols) in its Results window?

Specifically, what I'm trying to do is see if I have carriage returns where I don't want them in a return delimited list that's created by parsing data from a Value list.

I'm currently using a Script Variable to hold the results but I'm still having to set a global field to the variable's result to view unwanted carriage returns in it. This works but it sure would be nice to use the Data Viewer instead of a global field I've dragged onto a layout just for data viewing.

Thanks in advance!

[bikergeek]

I would suggest using an expression including brackets and a substitute function:

"["& substitute ( dataBeingWatched ; ¶ ; "_" ) &"]"

This replaces carriage return characters with underscores, and encloses the whole value in brackets so you can unambiguously identify any whitespace before and after.

[Kent Searight]

Excellent, works like a charm!

Thanks! :

[Kent Searight]

I spoke too soon...

If I substitute another character for the carriage return, I can't take advantage of "Value" type functions anymore.

Any other ideas?