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Trimming blanks on a memo field
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Visual FoxPro
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Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00625134
Message ID:
00625205
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Trimming carriage returns and line feeds? Here is what I do:
FOR i = 1 TO LEN(this.result)
    IF ASC(SUBSTR(this.result, i, 1))=10 .and. i>1
   	this.result = LEFT(this.result, i-1)
    ENDIF
    IF ASC(SUBSTR(this.result, i, 1))=13 .and. i>1
	this.result = LEFT(this.result, i-1)
    ENDIF
ENDFOR
>Hello Vlad and Eric,
>
>Vlad suggested:
>>Does following command works for you?
>>alltrim(strtran(MyMemoField,chr(13),''))
>>You can use also
>>alltrim(strtran(MyMemoField,chr(13)+chr(10),''))
>>in case 2 characters used (CR and LF) as a new line.

>
>I think that either of these will remove intentional new lines embedded in the memo field. My take on Eric's request is that excess trailing CR / LF / spaces need to be trimmed off. I've seen code that does this, but sorry to say don't have it handy right now.
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