Blank Line suppressing in Quiz

[Glenn Waters]

First a disclaimer, its been a long time since I've been on a VMS box, so 
this may not work exactly the same way.

I'm assuming since you've got "DESC..." at the end of your lines they are 
all character fields. First define one big character field with PACK to 
squish out the extra spacing , killing the excess blank lines at the end, 
combining all the "DESC" fields into one big field. Then when you output it 
add the WRAP option on the reported big field   TAB 1 Big-field wrap 60 (or 
however big you want your line).

Hope that helps

Glenn

At 01:48 PM 8/29/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi.
>
>OpenVMS V7.2-1
>QUIZ   (PowerHouse  8.20.D)
>
>I am having trouble suppressing blank lines in my report. I have 10 fields 
>that I print at the bottom of my report, one per line. Only the first 2 
>fields have data, the other 8 are blank. My code produces 9 lines, 2 with 
>data and 7 blank lines. Its as though NOBLANKS is suppressing the first 
>blank line only. Any suggestions?
>
>My Quiz report is as follows:
>
>SET REPORT NOBLANKS
>REPORT &
>... other good stuff ...
>  TAB 1 EXTRA-ADD-DESC1 OF FIN_3PA_INV_EXT_SF &
>  SKIP &
>  TAB 1 EXTRA-ADD-DESC2 OF FIN_3PA_INV_EXT_SF &
>  SKIP &
>  TAB 1 EXTRA-ADD-DESC3 OF FIN_3PA_INV_EXT_SF &
>  SKIP &
>  TAB 1 EXTRA-ADD-DESC4 OF FIN_3PA_INV_EXT_SF &
>  SKIP &
>  TAB 1 EXTRA-ADD-DESC5 OF FIN_3PA_INV_EXT_SF &
>  SKIP &
>  TAB 1 EXTRA-ADD-DESC6 OF FIN_3PA_INV_EXT_SF &
>  SKIP &
>  TAB 1 EXTRA-ADD-DESC7 OF FIN_3PA_INV_EXT_SF &
>  SKIP &
>  TAB 1 EXTRA-ADD-DESC8 OF FIN_3PA_INV_EXT_SF &
>  SKIP &
>  TAB 1 EXTRA-ADD-DESC9 OF FIN_3PA_INV_EXT_SF &
>  SKIP &
>  TAB 1 EXTRA-ADD-DESC10 OF FIN_3PA_INV_EXT_SF
>
>Thanks,
>Jim
>
>Jim Hamer
>
>Downtown Data Processing Inc.
>(416) 489-3298 home and office
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