Any concerns with using NUL char with PowerHouse

[Richard Sheehan]

Chris Sharman wrote:
> 
> >I'm looking to use it or another ascii character as a logical separator
> >in free form text entry, when no space occurs in the text, such as in a
> >URL string.
> 
> Not quite sure what you're trying to do, but linefeed is well supported &
> printed & easily entered too (ctrl-P in Quick).
> 
> Chris

We want to store 600 characters of free form text into sequential 60
character
fields in Image.  When the free form text is entered, it needs to be
pulled apart to store in the image dataset.  In the instance of someone
entering, a URL perhaps, the string could be longer than 60 characters. 
There are no intervening spaces to make a decision for a logical break
in the text.  We don't want to just chop off at every sixty characters,
because the data is reported in multiple*** quizes.  All the old reports
will have a poor appearance if it chops words at sixty characters all
the time.  The exception will be a string longer than 60 characters. 
When packing this string back together for a 600 character display
field, it needs to determined whether an intervening space needs to be
inserted back in.

I hope this make some sense.

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Richard Sheehan,
Administrative Systems - IT Programmer Analyst
Idaho State University Computing & Communications
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