Re: Forcing Paragraph Breaks on Results

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1998


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 21867
interpreted = N
texte = Yes, Ken, I know how [ConvertChars] works.The section that you quoted was merely the other Dave thinking out loud in search of a solution to his problem. While [ConvertChars] doesn't work in the way that he described, it does solve his problem -- turning line breaks into
s so they appear correctly in an HTML-rendered page.-Dave At 4:25 PM 12/16/98, Kenneth Grome wrote: >>>Can anyone think of a way to put (forced) paragraph breaks inside the >>>results of a search? >>>... searching for a particular string like .(space), then >>>adding an HTML

before continuing. > >>[ConvertChars][fieldName][/ConvertChars] will do what you want. > > >Hahaha! > >Good try, but convertchars will *NOT* do this. Convertchars only works on >ONE CHARACTER AT A TIME -- it cannot find two or more characters and >replace them.o--------------- Dave MacLeay --+ o----------- Digital Frontier --+ o--------------- 802.253.8612 --+ o--- dave@digitalfrontier.com --+ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. RE: Forcing Paragraph Breaks on Results (dave herriman 1998)
  2. RE: Forcing Paragraph Breaks on Results - Yes you can replace String for String! (Olin Lagon 1998)
  3. Re: Forcing Paragraph Breaks on Results (PCS Technical Support 1998)
  4. Re: Forcing Paragraph Breaks on Results (Dave MacLeay 1998)
  5. Re: Forcing Paragraph Breaks on Results (Kenneth Grome 1998)
  6. Re: Forcing Paragraph Breaks on Results (Kenneth Grome 1998)
  7. Re: Forcing Paragraph Breaks on Results (Kenneth Grome 1998)
  8. Re: Forcing Paragraph Breaks on Results (PCS Technical Support 1998)
  9. Re: Forcing Paragraph Breaks on Results (Dave MacLeay 1998)
  10. Forcing Paragraph Breaks on Results (dave herriman 1998)
Yes, Ken, I know how [convertchars] works.The section that you quoted was merely the other Dave thinking out loud in search of a solution to his problem. While [convertchars] doesn't work in the way that he described, it does solve his problem -- turning line breaks into
s so they appear correctly in an HTML-rendered page.-Dave At 4:25 PM 12/16/98, Kenneth Grome wrote: >>>Can anyone think of a way to put (forced) paragraph breaks inside the >>>results of a search? >>>... searching for a particular string like .(space), then >>>adding an HTML

before continuing. > >>[convertchars][fieldName][/ConvertChars] will do what you want. > > >Hahaha! > >Good try, but convertchars will *NOT* do this. Convertchars only works on >ONE CHARACTER AT A TIME -- it cannot find two or more characters and >replace them.o--------------- Dave MacLeay --+ o----------- Digital Frontier --+ o--------------- 802.253.8612 --+ o--- dave@digitalfrontier.com --+ Dave MacLeay

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