Re: ACE Report Question

Andy Kent (akent@cix.compulink.co.uk) wrote: : > I'm using ACE to write a report for one of my customers. One of the : > fields : > I need to output in the report is a blob text field. In order to output : > this field, I need to store it in some type of ACE variable. I've tried : > assigning this field to a character variable of size 10,000, but ACE : > tells me that this variable is not large enough (makes sense since : > a text field can be of unlimited size). I've tried using the CLIPPED : > keyword, but I get an error telling me that this can only be used for : > character fields (not text fields). : > : > Does anyone have any ideas on how a text field can be stored as a : > variable in ACE???? : How about defining it as a TEXT datatype and using WORDWRAP to print it? : akent@cix.compulink.co.uk (Andy Kent) : ------------------------------------------------ : Freelance Informix Database Specialist, : Redland, Bristol, England Unfortunately, ACE does not recognize the TEXT datatype.... I've found that I can get around this bug by using some functions I've written with ACE Runner. Chris -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chris Hushour Internet: cwh@evolving.com Evolving Systems Incorporated Englewood, Colorado ------------------------------------------------------------------------------