Posted by lossed on 10/02/84 11:51

Tks Mike,

Do you know what would be the query syntax that will concatenate the
first_name field with the required number of no breaking spaces?

Mike C# wrote:
> HTML strips extra whitespace out when rendering. Maybe appending a bunch of
> " " non-breaking spaces to the end would resolve your display issue?
>
> "lossed" <hundyhunter@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1151445410.988182.165360@x69g2000cwx.googlegroups.com...
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Please excuse me if this has been asked before or sounds a bit dim.
> > This is a question asked on another forum but the solutions being
> > offered are focussing on programming rather than letting the DB server
> > do the work, which I'm not sure is the most efficient solution.
> > However, my confession is I dont use SQL server so can't help them
> > directly with the syntax. Hopefully you can help me help them and learn
> > a little about SQL Server in the process.
> >
> > Trying to right pad a first name field so the padded string is a total
> > of 30 chars. It will be output concatenated with the last name field,
> > and each field separated with a "|". So that when output it reads
> > something like:
> >
> > fname | mylastname
> >
> >
> > Syntax given was:
> >
> > select id,
> > substring((last_name+','+rtrim(' '+isnull(level,'))+'
> > '+rtrim(isnull(first_name,'))+space(30)),1,30)+ ' | ' as student_name
> > from student
> >
> > Issue: It appears this is padding correctly but the spaces are not
> > rendering in the browser. (I have no way to check this as I don't use
> > sqlserver. However, I can understand that multiple spaces are not going
> > to render in the client browser, if indeed the query is padding with
> > spaces.
> >
> > Question: Instead of using space(), can replicate() be used and a
> > unicode space representation rather than an actual space be used? Or,
> > is there a better way that will ensure
> > the padding shows in browser?
> > I guess a fixed width font would also need to be used otherwise the
> > 30-char blocks could wind up being different widths, which would defeat
> > the purpose.
> >
> > If there is something I've missed, or you have any suggestions, I'm
> > keen to learn.
> >
> > TYhanks in advance,
> >
> > Lossed
> >

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