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Hi
I have a column in sql database as RTF, i want to show this column in plain table in Qlikview.
How to convert it to string?
Hi,
u can make use of
ord() or chr() functions
example:
ord('R')
result- returns number 82
chr(82) returns R
regards,
Vaibhav
thanks vibhav for your reply,
one of the values in the field is
7B5C727466315C616E73695C616E7369637067313235325C64656666305C6465666C616E67313033337B5C666F6E7474626C7B5C66305C666E696C5C666368617273657430204D6963726F736F66742053616E732053657269663B7D7D0D0A5C766965776B696E64345C7563315C706172645C66305C66733137205B41627261722041686D61645D5C7061720D0A546869732061637469766974792068617320616C7265616479206265656D20636F6D706C657465642C20776520646F20756E6465727374616E642020776879206974207374696C6C20686572655C7061720D0A5C7061720D0A7D0D0A00
Can u please tell me what fuction to apply to convert it in text format
u can use text
text() funtcion
i tried the text () but no luck!!
Hello, Were you able to convert RTF into plain text? Any chance you can share your script?
Thank you!
Hi All,
I am beginner with QlikView and I had to face a challenge of extracting the plain text by parsing RTF/RichText. Seems to be an easy problem and the solution is even easier ,but it took me some time to arrive at the solution, hence i would like to share it with the community.
I created a custom function in QlikView by writing a JScript in the Edit Module (CTRL +M) space. The function is as shown below
function convertToPlain(rtf)
{
rtf = rtf.replace(/\\par
return rtf.replace(/\{\\[^{}]+;\}|[{}]|\\\n?[A-Za-z]+\n?(?:-?\d+)?[ ]?|[{\\\*}]/g, "");
}
All this function does is replaces the string which matches the regex expression marked in bold with a empty string "" . I am sure that some of you can write a better Regex Expression, but this was the one which worked for me(there are lot of posts where you find different regex expression which might work for you but you need to do thorough testing). You can use websites such as https://regex101.com/ to build your own Regex Exp and test it.
Now all you have to do is to call this function in your load script as shown below
Load convertToPlain(<YourRTFColumn>) from <YourSource>;
Please feel free to contribute if you think there is a better way to do it or someone wants to add on to this.
Hi, I am trying to understand how you did this. What if this was your RTF output?
{\rtf1\ansi\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Courier New;}}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\lang1033\f0\fs16\par\parRing stedet F\'d8R utr.\par\parK-pers varsles ETTER utr.\par\parUtr. v/ Vakt-Service\par\par\'c5pningstider:\par\parVarsle inst. ved feil:\parL\'e5ne n\'f8kkel til inst:\parBlokkering v/:\parForsikringsselskap:\parInstruks fra: 13/12/2012\par\par}