Re: Putting carriage returns into varchar field

Posted in 1999

Art S. Kagel — Wed, 15 Dec 1999 14:21:37 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Post version and front-end information. You should be able to stuff anything except a NULL character into a varchar column (need a char type to hold NULLS) depending on the capabilities of your front-end tools. In ESQL/C it is trivial and in 4GL not hard either. Art S. Kagel Donald Kunecke wrote: > > I am trying to put carriage returns into a varchar field for data that is to > be sent to a report writer. The max length of the data is 255, and probably > has between 1 and 8 carriage returns. If I strip the c/r's off, I can get > the record in, but, I really do need the c/r's for the report writer. > > Any help much appreciated.