Highligting a selection

[EBROWN]

Thank you Lee,

 

I must have tried 100 different combinations.

Why did it require the two \.....

I watched the field expression build as I picked the property:, Format:, Precision:, additional Format:

So I thought I might need a \ between each field but not the location you suggested.

And of course you are correct.

Thanks again Lee

EBROWN

[Lee Mac]

In LISP the backslash is an Escape Character; this means it can be used to give the subsequent sequence of characters an alternative meaning, for example:

 

\n  =  new line character
\t  =  tab character
\r  =  carriage return
...

Hence, if you want to use a literal backslash, you need to mark it as a literal by prefixing it with another backslash '\\'.

 

In the original Field Expression we had:

 

\f "%lu5%pr5%ps[,\"]"

Since the expression contains characters that have other meanings ('\' and '"') we need to mark these characters as literals by prefixing them with a backslash:

 

[b][color=red]\[/color][/b]\f [b][color=red]\[/color][/b]"%lu5%pr5%ps[,[b][color=red]\[/color][/b]\[b][color=red]\[/color][/b]"][b][color=red]\[/color][/b]"

[EBROWN]

Lee,

 

Thanks for the explanation. And being around to help.

 

Many Thanks,

Ebrown

[Lee Mac]

You're welcome