Carriage Return

Hi Friends,
Few days back one of clients of my company had a problem with carriage Returns in the data.To make it simple we take column data from the tables and output it to a flat file like notepad onto the server.This process is repeated for a number of lines.So before outputting the line I used Replace chr(13) and Chr(10) with Nulls and then output the line to the file.
This was working fine as they had no more carriage returns but recently they noticed that one of the fields loses two spaces...It is a description field and we rpad it to 240 chars.It happens with only few records and with rest it is ok.....Due to this all records are not in the same line and that is the problem.
Does anyone know that if if chr(13) or chr(10) has any problems with Long fields or number of spaces or something...I have done so many hit and trials but nothing works...Coul you please help me out.

Thanks for the reply...
I'm not sure that the column data has embedded CR's but customer did have the problem of carriage returns in the file.....I have to replace them with NULL and not spaces as it is a postion based file and I cannot change the postions...replacing with spaces means more characters which they don't wan't.
Thanks
Mohit

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Hello Michael,
Thank you for your response. After doing some researching and experimenting, here's what I have found so far.
First, using an onkeypress function to alert the keycode, a chr(13) is being returned when I press the Enter key in the textarea.
function check_Enter(e)
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    else
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}Next, when I access the value of the textarea via javascript with $x('P212_INCORRECT').value, the chr(13) is automatically converted to the newline character (\n). In an attempt to replace the \n with a \r so plpdf will recognize the carriage return, I added a javascript replace function before sending the text to the package, and it does not work.
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Thanks, Lisa

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Hi
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How do i insert them in a string
i know "\f" is carriage return,
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uncle_alice wrote:
jverd wrote:
remus.dragos wrote:
I forgot that it does not exist in Java. A good thing
from my point of view.Running the following makes my computer beep.
public class Bell {
public static void main(String... args) {
System.out.println("\u0007");
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>
>
>I forgot that it does not exist in Java. A good thing
from my point of view.
Running the following makes my computer beep.
public class Bell {
public static void main(String... args) {
System.out.println("\u0007");
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what is Form feed(\f) and Carriage return(\r)?
Please explain to me.
Thank you.

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The controlls date back to teletype machines which operated rather like typewriters. Cariage return, as it's name implied, caused the print head to move back to the start of the line, line feed advanced a line (without, necessarilly, returning the carriage) and formfeed skipped to the next page.
Newline on these machines was always "return, linefeed" because executing the carriage return on these machine could take too long. The early machines had only a single character buffer so that they had to executed the characters as quickly as they arrived. So doing the linefeed after the carriage return gave the carriage more time to return. On some teletypes if you did "linefeed, return" then the first character of the new line would often be printed somewhere in the middle of the line.
This is the origin of the MSDOS/Windows end of line sequence.
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Hello,
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In Pages Version 4.0.1 (746) I've created a table in Pages with this function to make an "carriage Return" in a cell.
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kdetlev wrote:
Your workaround will not be possible in my table, because there is no empty cell in the table, but I think it is also a good help too.
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Enter the cell
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a
b
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Thanks in advance,
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      document_data              = l_doc_chng
      put_in_outbox              = ' '
      commit_work                = 'X'
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      packing_list               = lt_objpack
      object_header              = lt_objhead
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      contents_txt               = lt_objtxt
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      too_many_receivers         = 1
      document_not_sent          = 2
      document_type_not_exist    = 3
      operation_no_authorization = 4
      parameter_error            = 5
      x_error                    = 6
      enqueue_error              = 7
      OTHERS                     = 8.

Carriage Return Problem

Hello,
I have written some code which extracts data from a MySQL
database and stores it in a CSV file using CFFILE.
However, the database includes data inserted from an HTML
textarea form element which is stored in a MySQL text field. The
textarea data includes carriage returns which, when written to a
CSV file, force a new line which makes the data messy.
Is there a way of removing the carriage returns?
Many thanks,
Simon

I recently had to deal with a similar situation. The
differences are:
1. My file is pipe delimited.
2. My source data comes from a vendor application, not an
html form.
The following code worked for me.
<cffile action="write" nameconflict="overwrite"
addnewline="no" output=""
file="d:\dw\dwweb\work\#CaseFileName#">
<cfoutput query="casedata">
<cffile action="append"
file="d:\dw\dwweb\work\#CaseFileName#"
output="#caseid#|strip a bunch of
fields|#theatre_mcase#|#Replace(pre_op_diag, chr(10), ' ',
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Text Formating/Carriage Return in VC

Hi All,
<b>Background:</b> we are using visual composer (VC) to display BI reports on portal. with that an additional functionality we are providing is commentary, i.e. user can save comments on report to view later.
<b>Problem:</b> we are able to do the task but the problem is user can enter text but it is saved without any carriage returns and line feeds. On retrieval, it gives back all text in a single line and remove all paragraphic arrangements.
I would really appreciate the earliest reply.
Regards,
Shabbar

Hi basheer
I thing u ,didnt get teh core issue
Actually the issue is ,
In VC , Text Editior. i type some message
IN Text_Editor
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               HOW ARE YOU [enter]
               Good to See your Reply [enter]
Here the issue is, while i pass this Text message to R/3 system
the system will read the message as
HI BASHEER HOW ARE YOU Good to See your Reply
Here SAP R3 doesnt know how to handle the [enter key ]carriage return...
so it take all the message in single line. but i want them as the way i enter in text editor.
i would like to know how to handle this in Backend...
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Message was edited by: Michael Gaines

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I'm using Oracle Reports 6i to generate a report to a text file using delimited format so I can read it in Excel. I've done some testing putting some information in the layout but it seems that all my data is generated in one line. It does not generate the carriage return for the multiple rows I need. Is this standard functionality?. If so, that means I have to generate the file using PL/SQL to get the control I want?

Whew...lot's of questions...let's see if I can help (at least a little)...
1. Quite possibly, the user is/was pulling the image from the database? I do this in my environment, so it might be worth a look.
2. You should be able to print in any format from the web. You may need to adjust your destype/desname/desname parameters.
3. Only thing I can think of here is that maybe the original report was not written using a standard web-friendly font?
4. There's a couple of ways you can get data into an excel file:
A. Use DDE and poke the data right into it (messy when you need to print the regular Oracle report too).
B. Add an option to print to file and set the desformat to DELIMITEDDATA. Be sure to go through the data model and set Exclude from XML Output to 'Yes' for fields you don't need. Also, be aware that this may not come out in the same order as they do on the printed report. You can read about this on Metalink.
Hopefully that helps you a little bit. :)
Chad

Keep white spaces and carriage returns?

I'm viewing a column -VARCHAR2(4000)- in a standard report column.
The column value contains white spaces and carriage returns.
I put "white-space:pre;" in CSS Style, but it still skips carriage returns...
What can I do to view white spaces and carriage returns?
I'm using apex 3.0 and IE 7.
Saad.

I'm using apex 3.0 and IE 7.There's your problem...
IE6 (and, since there don't seem to be any docs saying anything different, presumably IE7) don't support white-space: pre in quirks mode. Don't ask me why - probably in one of MS efforts to "not break the web".
All the APEX built-in templates are rendered in quirks mode as they don't supply complete DOCTYPEs. If you are using a standard APEX template or a custom template without a complete DOCTYPE declaration you are probably seeing this quirks behaviour.
It looks like this will change in IE8.

Interactive Report: how can I display carriage returns?

Hello everybody.
Here is my problem: I created a table containing a field COMMENT varchar2(4000) and using APEX 4.1 I built an interactive report on it.
Users can fill the field COMMENT with sentences on different rows, ex:
" this is the first line
this is the second line
this is the third line"
This is correctly managed in the FORM, where I defined the field COMMENT as 'Text Area', but in the REPORT I wasn't able to set it in a way which permits to see it whit the carriage returns: the content is displayed on one row only : "this is the first linethis is the second linethis is the third line".
I tried and set all the possible field types, but I found no ways to display the content exactly as it is (with carriage returns).
Obviously I cannot use HTML
, since I cannot ask users to digit it when inserting their text.
Could someone suggest me how to reach this result? In need to use the interactive report because the searching/filtering tool is fundamental.
Thanks in advance,
Daniele

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Please update your forum profile with a real handle instead of "user9211286".
Here is my problem: I created a table containing a field COMMENT varchar2(4000) and using APEX 4.1 I built an interactive report on it.
Users can fill the field COMMENT with sentences on different rows, ex:
" this is the first line
this is the second line
this is the third line"
This is correctly managed in the FORM, where I defined the field COMMENT as 'Text Area', but in the REPORT I wasn't able to set it in a way which permits to see it whit the carriage returns: the content is displayed on one row only : "this is the first linethis is the second linethis is the third line".
I tried and set all the possible field types, but I found no ways to display the content exactly as it is (with carriage returns).
Obviously I cannot use HTML
, since I cannot ask users to digit it when inserting their text.
Could someone suggest me how to reach this result? In need to use the interactive report because the searching/filtering tool is fundamental.Use a CSS style sheet with attribute selectors. Put this in the page HTML Header, replacing the <tt>T_EMP_NAME</tt> etc selectors with the actual <tt>id</tt> attributes of your column headers:
<style type="text/css">
.apexir_WORKSHEET_DATA td[headers="T_EMP_NAME"] {
white-space: pre;
</style>
Interactive Report Control Break disregards HTML Header style.

Reports not retaining carriage returns from htmldb_item.textarea

Im created a tabular form for multi row updates using htmldb_item.textarea for one of the fields. When I update the tabular form it keeps any carriage returns in this field, which is good. I then created a PL/SQL function body returning a SQL Query report for printing purposes. The problem is that the field populated by the htmldb_item.textarea does not retain any of the carriage returns in the report.
I enter the following in the textarea on the tabular form:
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
The report I created then displays the data as:
Line 1 Line 2 Line 3
I need the report to display the data the same as it appears on the tabular form.
I tried this in my report from reading other similar situations on this forums, but didnt work.
replace("TEXTAREA",''||chr(13)||'',''||
||'') as title
Anyone know of a solution?

How about this?
Go the page where you can edit the report column attribute - here is the bread crumb to help you figure out what I am talking about
Home>Application Builder>Application 99999>Page Definition>Report Attributes>Column Attributes
The second box in this page is Column formatting, you will find 4 text boxes (Number / Date Format, CSS Class, CSS Style, Highlight words) and a text area (HTML Expression). In the text area replace #COLUMN_ALIAS# with <PRE>#COLUMN_ALIAS</PRE>. You will get your newlines without tweaking the query or removing Strip HTML. Strip HTML is a security feature that I would not disable. On the down side you will loose some of the ability to format like fonts etc (:-(,
Here is why you loose the newlines in the report. When browsers render html they have the liberty to reformat it. When reformating they can play around with whitespaces including new lines. To force a new line you have to use the BR tag or you can say the text is preformated using the PRE tags.

Carriage return in feed item description?

As the title says, is it possible to use carriage returns in a podcast feed item description? I'd like my description to list the show topics... something like:
Show topics:
1. Topic 1
2. Topic 2
Possible? I'm currently using Podcast Maker to generate my feeds. Does that make it any easier or more difficult?
Aaron

You can just put a newline character inside the description field and iTunes will show the newline in the Podcast Information Panel (click the "i" button for the episode to see this panel).
You shouldn't just put a <BR> tag in there though. If you want to put any kind of html tag in the description field, you must either escape them with a < and > tags or
with a <![CDATA[ ]]>.
So some field results I found out through experimentation with iTunes:
First what works:
- Newline characters work.
- <BR> works.
- <![CDATA[line 1<BR>line 2]]> works too.
What doesn't work:
- <BR>
- <BR/> and its escaped forms such as <BR/>
I'm not sure how other podcast clients will treat the newline character though.
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