Filemaker Pro 8.5 Educational Maintenance T3 TJ083LL/A User Manual
Product codes
TJ083LL/A
Chapter 12
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Text functions 165
Description
Returns a text result containing only the characters that were provided in filterValues,
in the order that they were originally entered in textToFilter. If filterValues
doesn’t have any characters, an empty string is returned.
Values are text items separated by carriage returns. A value can be empty, a single
character, a word, a sentence, or a paragraph. When you press Enter or Return, you start
creating a new value. The last value will be recognized with or without a carriage return.
When the textToFilter or the filterValues parameter is a literal string, you must
Values are text items separated by carriage returns. A value can be empty, a single
character, a word, a sentence, or a paragraph. When you press Enter or Return, you start
creating a new value. The last value will be recognized with or without a carriage return.
When the textToFilter or the filterValues parameter is a literal string, you must
insert a paragraph character (¶) between each item in the string. To insert a carriage
return character, click the ¶ button in the Specify Calculation dialog box.
return character, click the ¶ button in the Specify Calculation dialog box.
Examples
FilterValues(“Plaid¶Canvas¶Suitcase”;“Plaid¶Canvas”) returns
Plaid
Canvas
Canvas
FilterValues(ValueListItems(“Database”;“Sizes”);“Medium¶Small”)
returns
Small
Medium
Medium
when a database file named Database has a value list Sizes that contains
Small¶Medium¶Large.
Small¶Medium¶Large.
GetAsCSS
Format
GetAsCSS(text)
Parameter
text - any
Data type returned
text
Description
Returns text, converted to the CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) format, an Internet text
format similar to
. CSS supports more text formats than HTML, so CSS will
represent what you have typed more accurately.