Soft vs. hard returns

[Brett Bixler]

In FMPro 5.5, I need to create a calc field that concatonates several
fields together with a hard (chr 13) return at the end of each field.

So, I have a formula like field1 & "returnchar" & field 2

where returnchar is the symbol for a return character that you can insert
into the formula via a button in the "Specify Calculation" dialog.

FMPro seesm to put a soft (chr11) return in here instead of a hard return.

Is there any way to change this?

Does 6.0 adddress this?

Thanks in advance!

[NeoLuddite]

In article <bxb11-2107031259340001@cbel5.cac.psu.edu>,
[email]bxb11@psu.edu[/email] (Brett Bixler) wrote:

> In FMPro 5.5, I need to create a calc field that concatonates several
> fields together with a hard (chr 13) return at the end of each field.
>
> So, I have a formula like field1 & "returnchar" & field 2
>
> where returnchar is the symbol for a return character that you can insert
> into the formula via a button in the "Specify Calculation" dialog.
>
> FMPro seesm to put a soft (chr11) return in here instead of a hard return.
>
> Is there any way to change this?

You could create a global field (call it CR) and type a carriage return
into it and use that. field1 & CR & field 2

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[B Collins]

Brett Bixler wrote:

>
> In FMPro 5.5, I need to create a calc field that concatonates several
> fields together with a hard (chr 13) return at the end of each field.
>
> So, I have a formula like field1 & "returnchar" & field 2
>
> where returnchar is the symbol for a return character that you can insert
> into the formula via a button in the "Specify Calculation" dialog.
>
> FMPro seesm to put a soft (chr11) return in here instead of a hard return.
>
> Is there any way to change this?
>
> Does 6.0 adddress this?
>
> Thanks in advance!

You can concatenate the ¶ chracter each place you want the carriage
return, and that should do it. On a Mac, that character is produced by
Option 7.