Condensing large character string and removing carriage returns - SSRS

***Update ***
Function created:

for condensing a large character string and removing any carriage returns (such as in a comments field).

Function shortcomment(byval commentstring as string, stringlength as integer) as string

if commentstring="" or isnothing(commentstring)
return commentstring
else

commentstring=replace(commentstring, chr(10)," ")
if commentstring.length >stringlengthcommentstring=left(commentstring, stringlength) & "....."
return commentstring
else
return commentstring
end if
end if
end function

to implement:

=code.shortcomment(Fields!comments.Value, 10)

where 10 is the condensed length

Condensing large character string and removing carriage returns - SSRS

Useful formula for condensing a large character string and removing any carriage returns (such as in a comments field).


=iif(len(Replace((Fields!Comments.Value),CHR(10)," "))>25, (left(Replace((Fields!Comments.Value),CHR(10)," "),25) & "....."),Fields!Comments.Value)


...next stage will be to create a function...

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