Re: Forcing Paragraph Breaks on Results

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1998

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 21856
interpreted = N
texte = [ConvertChars][fieldName][/ConvertChars] will do what you want.At 11:07 AM 12/16/98, dave herriman wrote:>I wanted to ask for a little help in coming up with possible solutions for>this. Can anyone think of a way to put (forced) paragraph breaks inside the>results of a search? I have users copying and pasting long passages of text>and [adding] these to a db. Trouble is when they're displayed, it all runs>together in a long string, flush left and fit within the boundaries of a frame>or whatever, but still one very long string.>>Short of making the users copy/paste into separate, multiple textarea fields>(for the individual paragraphs) that would be formatted with hard breaks>between them on the results page, is there a way to [getChars] or something,>looking for the end of a sentence, insert the HTML break(s), then pick up the>rest of the text with additional [getChars]/paragraph sets as needed all the>way to the end?? Sounds kind of like the way [boldWords] works on a result,>but this would be searching for a particular string like .(space), then>adding an HTML

before continuing.>>Sort of what I had in mind, but not quite:>[getChars start=1&end=400][fieldName]

[/getChars]>[getChars start=401&end=800][fieldName]

[/getChars]>[getChars start=801&end=10000][fieldName]

[/getChars]>>Tell me there's a better way! Thanks.>>-->>[/dave], on digest>>>webmaster>metropolitan community colleges>kansas city, missouri>http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us>mailto:herriman@kcmetro.cc.mo.uso--------------- Dave MacLeay --+o----------- Digital Frontier --+o--------------- 802.253.8612 --+o--- dave@digitalfrontier.com --+ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

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Re: Forcing Paragraph Breaks on Results (Dave MacLeay 1998)
Forcing Paragraph Breaks on Results (dave herriman 1998)

[convertchars][fieldName][/ConvertChars] will do what you want.At 11:07 AM 12/16/98, dave herriman wrote:>I wanted to ask for a little help in coming up with possible solutions for>this. Can anyone think of a way to put (forced) paragraph breaks inside the>results of a search? I have users copying and pasting long passages of text>and [adding] these to a db. Trouble is when they're displayed, it all runs>together in a long string, flush left and fit within the boundaries of a frame>or whatever, but still one very long string.>>Short of making the users copy/paste into separate, multiple textarea fields>(for the individual paragraphs) that would be formatted with hard breaks>between them on the results page, is there a way to [getchars] or something,>looking for the end of a sentence, insert the HTML break(s), then pick up the>rest of the text with additional [getchars]/paragraph sets as needed all the>way to the end?? Sounds kind of like the way [boldwords] works on a result,>but this would be searching for a particular string like .(space), then>adding an HTML

before continuing.>>Sort of what I had in mind, but not quite:>[getChars start=1&end=400][fieldName]

[/getChars]>[getChars start=401&end=800][fieldName]

[/getChars]>[getChars start=801&end=10000][fieldName]

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