>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>I have an edit box on a form where the user can type what they want. a button at the bottom send this via email but the email is set to text/html and I have to leave it this way as other emails get sent automatically that are formatted html. I've been trying but with no success to identify carriage returns in the field and replacing them with a
to try to add some formatting to the email.
>>>Any ideas?
>>>
>>>~M
>>
>>Try
>>

>>chrtran(myMemo, chr(13) +chr(10), '<br/>')

>
>thanks for coming back, I've tried variats of this code below but the result that I put back onto the screen never shows the br code as being added to the text
>~M

Found it!
mbody2 = strtran(mbody, chr(13), 'zzz')
thanks
~M

>
>

>mbody = thisform.edtbody.Value
>
>* this always returns a yes, have to to make sure it can see the chr(13)
>IF CHR(13) $ UPPER(mbody)
>	WAIT WINDOW "yes" TIMEOUT 1
>ELSE
>	WAIT WINDOW "no" TIMEOUT 1
>ENDIF
>
>chrtran(mbody, chr(10), '<br/>')
>*chrtran(mbody, chr(13), '<br/>')
>*chrtran(mbody, chr(13) + chr(10), '<br/>')
>*chrtran(mbody, chr(10) + chr(13), '<br/>')
>
>
>* so I can see the result
>thisform.edtbody2.Value = mbody
>