This simple function will return the corresponding ASCII character for any numerical value. It is to be used in combination with concat(), MemoCopy(), MemoMemoCopy(), MemoReplace(), MemoFind() etc. 

It is a very useful function for building advanced strings or documents. 

To find the value of any character use this website: http://asciivalue.com/index.php

Numerical Value

Example 1

This will result in everything after the second quote will be ignored.

This on the other hand will give us the wanted result. ASCII value 34 equals ".

Example 2

Up to now, this has been very difficult if not impossible to do in DataEase. This has now changed.

In DataEase Memo a proper New Line is both CR and NL... So you need to add chr(13)+chr(10).

We use an example from MemoCopy().

This example will be a little more practical. Let say we want to insert a new sentence at the beginning i.e a heading. We will combine MemoCopy() with another new function chr() which will allow you to append any ASCII value as well like CR or ".

MemoCopy(MyMemo,concat("This is the results of the Norwegian Jury!",chr(13),chr(10)),3)+MemoCopy(MyMemo,"Peter Griffin",0)

Result: 
The Result of the Norwegian Jury!
And the winner is Peter Griffin.

We see here that we get a carriage return after the new heading. This can be very useful when you are going to build documents etc in Memo fields or diretctly in Text fields with WriteToFile() etc.

ASCII printable characters (character code 32-127)

Codes 32-127 are common for all the different variations of the ASCII table, they are called printable characters, represent letters, digits, punctuation marks, and a few miscellaneous symbols. You will find almost every character on your keyboard. Character 127 represents the command DEL.

The extended ASCII codes (character code 128-255)

There are several different variations of the 8-bit ASCII table. The table below is according to ISO 8859-1, also called ISO Latin-1. Codes 129-159 contain the Microsoft® Windows Latin-1 extended characters.

We continue to extend the function library in 8, and one functions that has been missing for "ever", has been CHR.

It might be a programmers function, but after we introduced the new exciting Memo manipulation class the lack of this function become even more evident.

The problem most DataEase people have experienced, might be the one where you have to include a " in your string... """...no!

Stop wondering any longer, now it is simply chr(34) ex. concat(chr(34),"Mr. DataEase",chr(34) will return "Mr.DataEase".

Our problem was even more annoying. One of the most important new functions in the Memo Manipulation library is MemoCopy where you can for instance Append a String/Number etc to a Memo. Lovely, but to make it look good, you might also want to have the new value start on a new line...not so easy in traditional DataEase.

Now there is.

Simply use the function MemoAppend(MemoToAppend,chr(13),0) for a simple carriage return, or MemoAppend(MemoToAppend,concat(chr(13),FieldToAppend),0) to get the value on a new line.

The rest we leave to your imagination.