Re: [libreoffice-users] [SOLVED?] Problem with text formatting in Report.

Greetings,

I think I have a solution. I did some research on the Pentaho report 
generator that is used in the LO Base Report Generator with emphasis on 
their formula syntax. The following formula placed in the report field's 
properties "Data" tab in "Data field..." seems to do what I need:

IF(LEN([Suffix])>0;"-"&[Suffix] ;"")

This tests the length of the text string (Suffix) and if not 0 then 
outputs the string prefixed with a dash. The ampersand (&) concatenates 
text strings. If the string length is zero, it outputs the NULL string. 
I tried outputting the string here without the dash to be sure I got all 
data, as in:,

IF(LEN([Suffix])>0;"-"&[Suffix] ;[Suffix])

but it fails for some reason, outputting "false"  when the string length 
is 0 instead.

As I said, it seems to be working, unless I breathe on it!

Thanks for all the suggestions.
Girvin


On 5/15/19 3:17 PM, Girvin Herr wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am using LibreOffice 5.3.4.2 on Slackware Linux 14.2 (K4.4.75).
>
> I have a database with a text field which may or may not be null. What 
> I want to do is to prefix a dash "-" before the text if the text field 
> is not null. At first, I tried this format:
>
> ;;;"-"@
>
> Somewhere, not by me, it got changed to:
>
> [>0]"";[<0]"";"";"-"@
>
> However, this does not work. I get the text when not null, but not the 
> dash in either case.
>
> Is there another way to do this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Girvin Herr

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