Progress
Results Administration
and Development Guide


Delimiter Characters

By default, Results uses curly braces { } to delimit functions in report headers and footers. It also uses braces to delimit the fields in address (and other) labels. You can change these default settings by editing the results.l file before you perform the initial build. For example, seven-bit character sets use the curly braces for special characters, so you can changes the results.l file to specify angle brackets < > as delimiter characters.

To change these delimiter characters, edit the following lines in the results.l file before the initial build:

left-delim= "{" 
right-delim= "}" 

Do not specify the same character for the left and right delimiter. You can use square brackets [ ] as long as there are no arrays within your reports or labels. You cannot use parentheses ( ) because they interfere with the label generation code.


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