Crystal continuation character? 1

[CarpalT]

Is there a line continuation character for Crystal formulas, such as there is for Basic formulas, a space followed by underline- like this _

I have a really long concatenation and would like to break it up for readability. The formula works fine until I try to break the line. (Crystal 8.5 & SQL SP)

Thanks!

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[TheBlondOne]

Hi there,

Do you mean you want to break it up in the formula editor for readability or when the actual report is run?

 

[dgillz]

You can use either Crystal syntax or Basic Syntax when you create a formula, although this is a global setting. I don't really know if you use underscores in those formula, but in crystal syntax it is not needed.

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[Madawc]

In Crystal, you can nest formula fields within formula fields, and rely on all of them working. Does this help?

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[CarpalT]

Thanks to all for your responses. What I had was a formula so long that it scrolled off the formula editor screen. I just wanted to break the line so I could see it all at once.

I knew that in Basic you had to use a continuation character at the end of such a line, so figured there was something similar in Crystal syntax.

dgillz, I didn't realize it was that simple. I took your advice and simply pressed the enter key at strategic points, dividing one long line into three. And it works, thank you very much!

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