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Trimmed Leading Space Characters [message #486724]

Fri, 18 September 2009 18:59

Mitch Christensen

Messages: 35
Registered: July 2009

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Data in one of the columns in my database contains leading space characters. It is critical that this field remain intact, including leading whitespace.

Is there a way I can avoid having BIRT automatically truncate leading space characters in a Data element?

Thanks
-Mitch

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Re: Trimmed Leading Space Characters [message #487050 is a reply to message #486724]

Mon, 21 September 2009 16:33

Jason Weathersby

Messages: 9167
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Mitch,

Look at the Format String either on the data item or style editor and
select custom and use the ^ format code to preserve whitespace.

Jason

Mitch Christensen wrote:
> Data in one of the columns in my database contains leading space
> characters. It is critical that this field remain intact, including
> leading whitespace.
>
> Is there a way I can avoid having BIRT automatically truncate leading
> space characters in a Data element?
>
> Thanks
> -Mitch

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Re: Trimmed Leading Space Characters [message #499495 is a reply to message #487050]

Mon, 23 November 2009 01:48

Dave Inskeep

Messages: 1
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Thanks, I was going nuts looking for this.

FWIW to anyone else looking for this it also helps if you're trying to force newlines via a Javascript expression, just embed "\n".

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