semicolon

RE: semicolon

Mike Schmitt — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 14:33:17 GMT

[quote userid="57299" url="~/discussions/f/rules/26228/semicolon/102923#102923"]use stripwith(...,";") or substitute(...,";","")[/quote]

Sorry, but I would strongly disagree with this approach.

The implication here is that this substitution would need to be run against the result of a flattened array of HTML code containing arbitrary user-facing plaintext. That plaintext might contain ";" characters that actually belong there, and this would mess those up, among other potential issues. The proper way to handle resolving an array into plaintext to get the desired output is, as Stefan already suggested, to handle the array itself - like with joinArray() (among certain other possibilities).

RE: semicolon

Mike Schmitt — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 14:29:20 GMT

[quote userid="59361" url="~/discussions/f/rules/26228/semicolon/102933#102933"]I suggest to use the joinarray() function[/quote]

Another nice trick when using an expression rule to generate HTML code like this, is to use a char(10) separator in appropriate places as that creates linebreaks in the generated code (making it easier to read), which is then of course ignored by the HTML interpreter and should thus not affect the eventual rendered HTML table in this case.

RE: semicolon

Stefan Helzle — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 10:55:55 GMT

For your local!rowItemsdata you create a list of text. Later, this is turned into a single text and Appian adds the default separator ";" between each item. I suggest to use the joinarray() function which allows you to define the separator, which can also be a space or an empty string.

RE: semicolon

Gabriele Camilli — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 07:45:01 GMT

Hi, just use stripwith(...,";") or substitute(...,";","")