[mapguide-users] Label Expressions - replaceall

[Zac Spitzer]

i did the actual string manipulation outside FDO and then
saved it again, rather than as an expression which gets
run every time.

if that didn't work, maybe try double quotes?

z

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:34 AM, GordonL
<gordon.luckett at arrowgeomatics.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Zac,
> where you replaced the linefeeds, did you do something like this?
>
> Translate(MYFIELD, chr(12), '\n')
>
> Do you know how to pass ASCII in the Expression for the tool tip?
>
> thanks
> gordon
>
>
>
> zspitzer wrote:
>>
>> that's really terribly explained, when I first saw "from-characterset"
>> with translate, I thought it was
>> something to do with code pages!
>>
>> Translate( <text property >, <from-characterset >, <to-characterset >)
>>
>> Would make more sense to humans as
>>
>> Translate( <text property >, <from-string>, <to-string>)
>>
>> I would like to see a fourth parameter, <repeat> 1 being the default,
>> 0 all or x number of times
>>
>> z
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Zac Spitzer <zac.spitzer at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> ah, yep, strange name, that's why I missed it...
>>>
>>> turns out there's a bit more logic required to split a name nicely
>>>
>>> z
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Jackie C. Ng <jumpinjackie at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> FDO has the expression function Translate( <text property >,
>>>> <from-characterset >, <to-characterset > )
>>>>
>>>> Is this available in mapguide?
>>>>
>>>> - Jackie
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> zspitzer wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there an expression with mapguide which can be used to do a replace
>>>>> all?
>>>>>
>>>>> I want to replace all newlines in a label with '\n' to split the words
>>>>> over multiple lines
>>>>>
>>>>> I couldn't see anything in studio
>>>>>
>>>>> z
>>>>>
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