My Workorders and Invoices use the @ symbol in text strings for noting price rates, for example: "1 Rigger, 3 hours @ $64.00 per hour, Uncrating"

However, on my printouts, everything after the @ symbol is not being printed.  Have I done something wrong with my PrintString command or is there special programming I need to put in place to make this work?

OK, thanks.  Where should this be done, when the string is first generated or just before it is printed?  If the former, I can easily do it in my programming when the different elements are put together to form the string (though I'd rather not have "@@" appear on the display, because I'm sure my users will be confused by it).  If the latter I'm afraid I'll need some further advice and hand-holding as it will be a wholesale overhaul of my print routine.  Which I don't mind, but I will need help.

Another recommendation: Write a function for this. That way, if you need to add or adjust what special characters need attention, you can do so in one place and all your PrintString code will fall into line automatically.

FUNCTION CleanPrintData(vIn as String) as String
var vRet as String

    vRet = vIn
    vRet = @Replace(vRet, "@", "@@")
    // Do any other stuff you need to do
    Return vRet

END FUNCTION

PrintString(CleanPrintData(PriceRate1), 100, 200, 0, "BArial", 33, 0)
PrintString(CleanPrintData(PriceRate2), 100, 250, 0, "BArial", 33, 0)
PrintString(CleanPrintData(PriceRate3), 100, 300, 0, "BArial", 33, 0)
 

Not that I know of.

-Ray

Infinity wrote on Nov 1^st, 2007 at 7:09pm:

Yes, but the way I showed you will make your life much easier in the long run than embedding this in each of your PrintString calls. Up to you though. 

I'm having partial success, and am very confused by what I am seeing.

Here is one of my current print routines:

Var vWillItFit as Int
Var vTextToPrint as String
Var vMaxWidth as Int
Var vLen as Int
Var vWidth as Int

// Prints the Pickup Company name
vWillItFit = 0
vTextToPrint = CleanPrintData(Pickup_Company)
vLen = @Len(vTextToPrint)
vMaxWidth = 300 //This is the Max printed width
While((vWillItFit = 0) And (vLen > 0))
{
	Printstring(vTextToPrint, 0, 0, 0, vFont, vSize, 1)
	If @PageExtentX() <= vMaxWidth Then
	{
		vWillItFit = 1
	}
	Else
	{
		vLen = vLen - 1
		vTextToPrint = @Left(vTextToPrint, vLen)
	}
}
Printstring(vTextToPrint, 160, vPosY + 255, 0, vFont, vSize, 0) 

When the value stored in Pickup_Company is "Company @ Name", the printout is "Company".

When the value stored in Pickup_Company is "@ Name", the printout is "@ Name".

???

Thanks Ray.  Whew, am I relieved!  I hate to hear that there's a bug in the program but I gotta tellya, this was driving me absolutely nuts this afternoon.

Quote:

I don't envy you that.  Make it fun; make it a contest.

While you're digging in there, is it possible to redesign PrintString() so that it can handle @ symbols without jumping through hoops (to coin a phrase)?  Seems like just about everybody will need to print the symbol at some point, what with email addresses being so ubiquitous.