Date:         Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:09:55 +0100
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From:         la volta statistics <schmidhauser@lavolta.ch>
Subject:      finding line break using Python
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Dear all

I would like to find the position of line breaks in the title of a table
using Python. It seems that the normal '\n' as a search criteria does not
work (see example below).
A second problem I have, is that I get an UnicodeEncodeError, when I use a
character such as '®' in the title (for generating this error, activate the
print strOldTitle line).
Can somebody help me?
Thank in advance,
Christian


DATA LIST FREE /var1 var2 .
BEGIN DATA
1 2
END DATA.
* Custom Tables.
CTABLES
  /VLABELS VARIABLES=var1 var2 DISPLAY=DEFAULT
  /TABLE var2 BY var1 [COUNT F40.0]
  /CATEGORIES VARIABLES=var1 var2 ORDER=A KEY=VALUE EMPTY=EXCLUDE
  /TITLES
   TITLE= 'First line®' 'second line®' 'third line®'.

BEGIN PROGRAM.
import spss,viewer
spssappObj = viewer.spssapp()
outputdoc = spssappObj.GetDesignatedOutput()
objItems = outputdoc.Items
outputdoc.ClearSelection()

for i in range(objItems.Count):
        objItem = objItems.GetItem(i)
        if objItem.SPSSType == 5 :
                objItem.Selected = True
                objPivotTable = objItem.ActivateTable()
                strOldTitle = objPivotTable.TitleText
#               print strOldTitle
                print strOldTitle.find("\n")
End Program.



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