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Stripping leading carriage return

overrider
in Calculation Engine (Define Fields)

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Hello all,

i have a Text-field which contains multiple lines of Text, for some reason, i often find records where the first line of the text-field contains nothing, i assume it is entered as a carriage return. Is there a simple way to strip this 1 extra carriage return from the beginning of the text-fields content?

Thanks,

Overrider

Edited by Guest

You can try the Trim Function, and if that isn't strong enough, then check out the Custom Functions at Brian Dunning's Site called Trim 4

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If you can calc the field you could use a leftwords(fieldname, 64000). That will strip of the leading carriage return. The Trim function won't.

but that will also strip out other characters such as:

&

!

*

^

to name a few.

The custom function I pointed to will do that.

Lee

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