Underscores in report results ie: "__B"

Question

Seems like something easy, but I have a web app and when I write and use a simple standard report, extracting data with the Microsoft SQL ODBC driver, I get data like "Los__bAngeles" or "New__BYork", etc....  How do I get the data out so that I get spaces, apostrophies, etc to show properly?  Is there a formating option?  I have tried the Format Field -> Text Interpretation -> HTML text.  This does not seem to make any difference.  Thx

Answer 1

Sorry Rick,
I missed the part about the Bs and Ps.
I'm not sure why the spaces are being replaced with __X but you might want to see what a 3rd party querying utility returns.
As well you might want to try a different connection method, ie. OLE DB instead of ODBC.
As for a formula you should be able to use the split function to split the string at the "__" and assign the elements to an array. Loop through each element of the array and replace the first character of each element with a space. As the split function will strip out the underscores the first character of each element (except possibly the first) would start with a p or a b and you can then use the replace function to enter in a space, ie. replace(array[x], left(array[x],1), ' ' )
As you are looping through each element assign the modified element to a string variable and then output the string variable
Edited by: Graham Cunningham on Jul 16, 2008 3:53 PM