jBASE 4.1 Linux - Concatenate

[ww]

I have the following code and I want EMAIL.BODY to be one long string
that I can email.

CNT = DCOUNT(ITM, AM)
FOR I = 1 TO CNT
ITM<I> = ITM<I>:CRR
EMAIL.BODY = EMAIL.BODY:ITM<I>
NEXT I

If I CRT EMAIL.BODY all I get is the last line rather than a long
string of all the ITM items.

Any thoughts?

[pat]

I assume 'CRR' is a <carriage return> ( CHAR(13) ), rather than
<carriage return><linefeed> sequence ( CHAR(13):CHAR(10) ) ?

Your 'CRT' would, in that case, be displaying the entire 'ITEM.BODY',
however each successive 'line' is 'overwriting', in the preceding
'line' on terminal display

Pat.

[Igor Micev]

You missed to do concatenation of EMAIL.BODY

EMAIL.BODY := EMAIL.BODY:ITM<I>

[JOSE L MARTINEZ-AVIAL]

Try this.

EMAIL.BODY =''

CNT = DCOUNT(ITM, AM)
FOR I = 1 TO CNT

EMAIL.BODY:=ITM<I>:CRR
NEXT I

2009/10/13 ww <wa...@waltwhite.com>

[ww]

Thanks folks. I never knew there was a := operator so that's nice to
know. And the CRR was only a carriage return so I changed that as
well. The final code is:

EMAIL.BODY = ''
CNT = DCOUNT(ITM, AM)
FOR I = 1 TO CNT

EMAIL.BODY:=ITM<I>:CHAR(13):CHAR(10)
NEXT I
CRT @(-1)
CRT EMAIL.BODY

which produces the proper result.

Thanks again,

WW

[bw@ht]

The simplest way of all is to do a global search & replace:

EMAIL.BODY = CHANGE(ITM,AM,CHAR(13):CHAR(10))
then add the final CRLF
EMAIL.BODY := CHAR(13):CHAR(10)

It's also my impression that jBase does this conversion automatically
when an attribute mark delimited record is written directly to an
Operating System folder, e.g. a program source directory.