[Download-List] Extracting multi-values as one block of text

[Jeffery G. Summers]

I gave Brian's CONVERT suggestion a whirl but have run into a problem.

 

My sample course record's CRS.DESC is stored as:

 

A course designed to provide the student with a^253basic understanding of
the nature and principles^253of war, national power, and the Department
of^253Defense role in the organization of national^253security. The
student also develops leadership^253abilities by participating in a
military^253organization, the cadet corps, which offers a wide^253variety
of situations demanding effective^253leadership.  Course taught at the
University of^253Kentucky.

 

Doing a SELECT and DOWNLOAD COURSES CRS.DESC it comes out (as expected):

 

"A course designed to provide the student with a"

 

Doing DOWNLOAD COURSES EVAL "CONVERT(@VM,' ',CRS.DESC)" it comes out as:

 

"A course designed to provide the student with a basic understanding of
the nature and principles of war, national power, and t"

 

All of my descriptions stop at 126 characters (the field itself is 50
characters).  Is there something else I'm missing?  Any suggestions?
Thanks!

 

 

Regards,

 

Jeffery G. Summers
Administrative Computing
Transylvania University
Office: 859-233-8134
Direct: 859-233-8139 

 

From: download-list-bounces at cedarville.edu
[mailto:download-list-bounces at cedarville.edu] On Behalf Of Brian McGuire
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 3:09 PM
To: Cedarville DOWNLOAD Users
Subject: Re: [Download-List] Extracting multi-values as one block of text

 

I usually do a CONVERT(@VM , ' ', CRS.DESC)    for this.  That second
parameter is a space between quotes.

 

Brian McGuire, Ph.D., MAS

Executive Director

______________________________

Office of Institutional Research

Direct:      602-639-6551

bmcguire at gcu.edu

 

From: download-list-bounces at cedarville.edu
[mailto:download-list-bounces at cedarville.edu] On Behalf Of Jeffery G.
Summers
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 11:51 AM
To: Download
Subject: [Download-List] Extracting multi-values as one block of text

 

I've always used NUM.VALUES for a multi-valued field, but can DOWNLOAD
extract data (like CRS.DESC) as one column including all the lines of
text?  I can do this in Querybuilder using reformat and I've never
investigated whether DOWNLOAD could do the same.  If so this could be very
useful.is this possible and if so, how?  Thanks!

 

Regards,

 

Jeffery G. Summers
Administrative Computing
Transylvania University
Office: 859-233-8134
Direct: 859-233-8139 

 

 

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