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vbcrlf ? why isn't this working? - 5/8/2005 11:08:01 PM

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Hi,

I am using asp and vbscript. I would like to put a carriage return and line feed in a string of text. This code still generates all of the text on one line. I don't understand why. I have also tried substituting the vbcrlf for chr(10) & chr(13), but I still have the string output on one line. ???? It seems like a simple problem, but I must be missing something.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Code:

<%
Response.Write("My name is Jane. ") & vbCRLF
Response.Write("It is May 9th.") & vbCRLF & vbCRLF & vbCRLF
Response.Write("Have a great day!")
%>

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Re: vbcrlf ? why isn't this working? - 5/9/2005 12:39:20 AM

willem

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try this:

<%
Response.Write("My name is Jane. " & vbCRLF)
Response.Write("It is May 9th." & vbCRLF & vbCRLF & vbCRLF)
Response.Write("Have a great day!")
%>

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Re: vbcrlf ? why isn't this working? - 5/9/2005 12:41:04 AM

VBS

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Dear ES,
vbCrLf doesn't wotk in HTML. When u use the response.write u r using HTML, so to do line breaks use the 

<%
Response.Write("My name is Jane. " & " ")
Response.Write("It is May 9th. ")
Response.Write("Have a great day!")
%>

Hope this Helps

Best Regards
Firas S Assaad

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Re: vbcrlf ? why isn't this working? - 5/9/2005 1:54:01 AM

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Thank you both for your comments. I am actually trying to create a string in VBScript which will be passed to make a pdf. So, I am not using any HTML, just VBScript and the pdf maker. But, even when I try this code as the only code in my asp page, I still get it all on one line:

<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" %>

<%
Response.Write("My name is Jane. " & vbCRLF)
Response.Write("It is May 9th." & vbCRLF & vbCRLF & vbCRLF)
Response.Write("Have a great day!")
%>

???

Any other ideas out there?

Thanks in advance!

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Re: vbcrlf ? why isn't this working? - 5/9/2005 3:30:51 AM

willem

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Dear ES,

As Firas rightly posted, the vbCRLF does not work in this case, it does not render on an html page. I don't know what your PDF converter accepts incoming, but if it accepts html, then you need to replace the vbCRLF by tags.
If it accepts straight "notepad" text, then you should not be writing this to the response object, but you should probably be building a text string to pass to the pdf like:

sPDFString="My name is Jane. " & vbCRLF
sPDFString=sPDFString & "It is May 9th." & vbCRLF & vbCRLF & vbCRLF
sPDFString=sPDFString & "Have a great day!"

and something like

rc=CreatePDFfromString(sPDFString)

or create a textfile from your string which you can pass to your converter.
good luck, and let us know if this helps,

Willem

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Re: vbcrlf ? why isn't this working? - 5/9/2005 6:31:26 AM

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Willem,

Thank you for your help. It seems then that the pdf (I am using the Freeware fpdf.asp) software must not support crlf. I have tried to build a string as you suggested, but it is always in one line. I will try to figure out a work around.

Thank you again for your help and comments!

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Re: vbcrlf ? why isn't this working? - 5/19/2005 4:31:09 PM

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Check this out:
It might help

This is the ascii combination for vbcrlf
Chr(13)+Chr(10)

(ascii 13 ==> Carriage return without linefeed)
(ascii 10 ==> Linefeed)

Get back if it works ;-)

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Re: vbcrlf ? why isn't this working? - 6/10/2005 4:12:58 AM

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I too am having problems with vbCrLf and vbTab

I'm testing a form I created in Dreamweaver that posts to an asp file. Here's a short version of the asp file.

<%@ LANGUAGE = "VBScript" %>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<%
emailText = "Registration Form Information: " &vbCrLf
emailText = emailText & "NAME: " & request.form("name") &vbCr
emailText = emailText & "ADDRESS: " & request.form("address1") &vbCr
emailText = emailText & "CITY: " & request.form("city") &vbTab
emailText = emailText & "STATE: " & request.form("state") &vbTab
emailText = emailText & "ZIP: " & request.form("zip") &vbTab
emailText = emailText & "REG FEE": " & request.form("regfee") $vbTab
emailText = emailText & "REG TOTAL": " & request.form("GrandTotal") $vbCr
emailText = emailText & "CONTRIBUTION": " & request.form("contrib") $vbTab
emailText = emailText & "TOTAL DUE": " & request.form("totaldue") $vbCrLf
%>

</head>

The output I get when I submit my form to the server is
NAME:SomeoneADDRESS:SomewhereCITY:SeattleSTATE:WAZIP:98045 etc etc

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