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djstephens Newbie Joined: 27 Aug 2009 Location: Australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 16	Topic: Remove carriage returns from a oracle long field Posted: 18 Nov 2009 at 3:22pm
	Hi I have extracted data from oracle that includes a long field and thus the field is outputted on many lines even if field is set to grow. i would like to remove carriage returns and i have done this in excel with the clean function is their a similiar function in crystal
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hilfy Admin Group Joined: 20 Nov 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3702	Posted: 18 Nov 2009 at 5:00pm
	You might be able to use Replace and search for the Ascii characters for CR/LF. Something like this to replace it with a space: Replace({mytable.myfield}, chr(13) + chr(10), ' ') However, depending on which version of Crystal you're using, you may not be able use a field over 255 characters in a formula. In that case, you can do something similar in a SQL Expression field and have the database remove them before it gets to Crystal. -Dell
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