[thelist] Exporting data to Word (RTF, actually) from ColdFusion
David Shadovitz
david_shadovitz at xontech.com
Wed Dec 13 16:03:06 CST 2000
Some of the ColdFusion programmers out there may be exporting data to
Word (RTF, actually) as per
http://tech.irt.org/articles/js154/index.htm. I use this method to
create a "printable page" with a header and footer on each page.
Here's a tip related to that:
<tip type="RTF" author="David Shadovitz">
If you pass a string variable containing a "<br>" to an RTF file, it'll
display "<br>" instead of actually doing a carriage return. Simple, I
hear you saying, just replace the <br> with CRLF, chr(13) & chr(10).
Nope, didn't work.
So I made a small RTF file, read it in via CFFILE, and printed each
character and its ASCII code. I saw that a new line is equivalent to
the 6 characters CRLF\par, or chr(13) chr(10) chr(92) chr(112) chr(97)
chr(114).
So there you go. Replace "<br>" with "chr(13) & chr(10) & chr(92) &
chr(112) & chr(97) & chr(114)".
</tip>
(Also posted to CF-Talk.)
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