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Another simple question that I can't answer on my own! Kevin Trainor Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:09:32 -0600

Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:09:32 -0600

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My ECS syntax question of the day is:

How do a append a space to a text item (or for that matter append any other special
character)?

I am trying to assemble a message in a text item from various other text items.  I need
to insert spaces between the words.  I have tried appending a character item with a
space value.  I seem to get "<space>" rather than an actual space.  When I define a
text item that I want to assign the value of space, I can't seem to pick the right value
to type into the item definition dialog. 

From the documentation, I can't see a way to assign the value of a character item to
a text item.  I can see how to assign the name of the character item.  I can see how
to assign the name of the value of the character item (this works fine for alphabetics
-- but not for special characters like space).

Please help.  I know it must be simple.

Thanks.

Kevin 

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