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user3218533
user3218533

Reputation: 33

TextFied Expression: keep whitespaces at the end of a textfield

I'm having a problem in a report where I have a $F{field} in which you can receive a value with whitespaces at the end. Example :
"20142101          ").
The textField must be horizontally align to "right".
The result in my PDF is "20142101" (the whitespaces doesn't appear)

The problem (I think) is that JasperReports automatically does a trim in the textField but I don't want this!

I've tried using options:

but it doesn't work...

Any suggestions?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4594

Answers (2)

dulon
dulon

Reputation: 754

You can use a borderless box with right/left padding for the textfields.

<textField>
<reportElement ../>
<box border="None" rightPadding="10"/>
<textElement textAlignment="Right"/>
<textFieldExpression..

Source of info

Note, when I tried it out, my jasper studio editor turned the box element into the following but it has the same effect.

<textField>
      <reportElement mode="Opaque" x="233" y="0" width="303" height="18" forecolor="#FFFFFF" backcolor="#817F82" uuid="501dc3cf-f3cf-45d4-aa25-de24c4100354"/>
      <box rightPadding="5">
        <pen lineWidth="0.0" lineStyle="Solid"/>
      </box>
     <textElement textAlignment="Right" verticalAlignment="Middle">
       <font fontName="Arial" size="10" isBold="true"/>
     </textElement>
     <textFieldExpression><![CDATA["My data where I want blank spaces in the end of this sentence.   "]]></textFieldExpression>
</textField>

Upvotes: 2

user3218533
user3218533

Reputation: 33

Thank you for your help !

I've found a solution which works but it's not very appropriate...

(My $F{field} is always a string of 60 characters)

($F{field} != null && $F{field}.length() == 60 && $F{field}.substring(59).equals(" ")) ? "<pre>"+$F{field}.substring(0,59)+"&nbsp</pre>" : $F{field}

(with markup html)

I will test with \t too.

Thx

Upvotes: 0

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