Kbase 17350: How does Progress deal with tilde (~) control chars?
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
1/26/2005 |
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Status: Verified
GOAL:
How does Progress deal with tilde (~) control chars?
FIX:
When a tilde (~) control character is stored in a database field, Progress does not convert the tilde to a control character at runtime. Progress does the conversion at compile time.
For example, you might invoke a compressed printing mode with the following:
DEF VAR a AS CHAR INITIAL "~033&k2S".
PUT CONTROL a.
This works without problem. The following, however, does not work:
1) Create a field in the customer table called "a".
2) Store the string "~033&k2S" in customer.a.
3) PUT CONTROL customer.a.
The first example works because Progress sees the string at compile time and does the proper conversion. In the second example, the string comes from a database field at runtime, and Progress does no conversion.