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Dirk VisserDirk Visser 

Substitute linefeed with comma

I want in a formula field the linefeed being replace with a comma. Although I used the chr(10) equivalent thru my numpad, it doesn't replace it. How can I do it ?
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Saravana Muthu 8Saravana Muthu 8
Please mark it as best answer if it solved your issue.

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Thanks,
Saravana
 

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Saravana Muthu 8Saravana Muthu 8
Hi,


Can you please share the formula you have used?

Also please refer this link if it helps.

https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/18909/find-line-break-in-formula-field

Thanks,
Sarav
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Dirk VisserDirk Visser
I want to use the following :
SubStitute (cText, "◙", ",")

The "◙" stand for character 10 which is the linefeed character.
Saravana Muthu 8Saravana Muthu 8
Hi,

You can't directly substitute linebreak with comma.

Workaround:

Create a custom setting Global with a text area field CRLF and set the value as below.

a
b

Then use the below formula in the formula.

SUBSTITUTE(Text_LF__c, MID($Setup.Global__c.CRLF__c,3,1), ",")

Global__c - Custom Setting
CRLF__c - Custom setting field.

Text_LF__c is the text field in the object.

Don't forget to mark your thread as 'SOLVED' with the answer that best helps you.

Thanks,
Sarav
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Dirk VisserDirk Visser
Thanks this was the answer I needed
Saravana Muthu 8Saravana Muthu 8
Please mark it as best answer if it solved your issue.

So that it will be helpful to others.

Thanks,
Saravana
 
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Alexis KasperaviciusAlexis Kasperavicius
For anyone else looking at this, Saravana's solution does work even if it is unorthadox. What's happening is three characters are being stored in the variable (a<CRLF>b). Then MID is used to extract only <CRLF> for use in a substitute formula. This is neccesary because the variables won't save unless text exists. A very nice little trick!

Note, this works in other contexts too. Instead of using the global variable, I just needed to do this within a flow - so I created a text template within the flow with the a/b text and used it with a substitute formula in exactly the same way.