Subject Re: [ib-support] quoting scripts and code - retaining format
Author Doug Chamberlin
At 04/27/2002 07:00 AM (Saturday), csswa wrote:
>Here's a suggestion for anyone who wants to avoid having Yahoo Groups
>gobble up the leading space on quoted source code.
>
>Dump your code into a text editor capable of search-replace. Search
>and replace the space character with character code 0183 (hold alt,
>enter 0183 on numkeypad, release). Select all and dump back into
>your email/webmail message. If someone wants to copy and run your
>posted code, they select all, copy to their text editor, do a reverse
>search-replace to the aforementioned, and voila, all
>spacing/formatting is back the way the author intended. For example:
>
>Here's formatted code I know Yahoo is going to left-align.
>
> ADD CONSTRAINT SAMP_FLUID_AGE_UOM_FK_VALID
> CHECK
> (
> EXISTS
> (
> SELECT 1
> FROM T_CODESET
> WHERE (CODE_SET = 'AUOM')
> AND (CODE_CODE = NEW.SAMP_FLUID_AGE_UOM_FK)
> )
> ),
>
>Now here's the same code with formatting protection:
>
>···ADD·CONSTRAINT·SAMP_FLUID_AGE_UOM_FK_VALID
>······CHECK
>·········(
>·········EXISTS
>············(
>············SELECT·1
>············FROM·T_CODESET
>············WHERE·(CODE_SET·=·'AUOM')
>············AND·(CODE_CODE·=·NEW.SAMP_FLUID_AGE_UOM_FK)
>············)
>·········),

No left-alignment happened to me!