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Hightlight Spaces 1

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JCDugas

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Dec 26, 2001
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Anyone know how to hightlight the number of spaces in a string field?

What I want to do is hightlight three spaces with a certain color and hight two spaces with another.

Thanks,

Jeremy
 
Maybe I should have included this code. Spaces can be highlighted, I'm just not sure if I run through the field once then run through it again with another replace formula.



replace({FIELD}," ",
"<font color=red>"+"<b>"+"@@"+"</b>"+"</font color>")

Change the field Text Interpretation to HTML.

Jeremy
 
Looks like you need to search for the spaces to do the replace, did you try using the instr function to look for "^^^" in the text you are trying to highlight (^ indicates a space)?
 
You are not coloring a space here, but characters that you are plugging into a space, but I guess you know that.

Try the following where the longer space replace formula is nested within the shorter one:

replace(replace({FIELD}," ",
"<font color=red>"+"<b>"+"@@@"+"</b>"+"</font color>")," ", "<font color=blue>"+"<b>"+"@@"+"</b>"+"</font color>")

-LB
 
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