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  1. Oct 27th, 2000, 03:44 AM #1
    IClarke
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    Cool

    I'm trying to display a text field from an SQL database in a VB label, eveything works fine apart from the fact the '&' symbol shows up as a '_'. I'm sure this is something to do with '&' being a special character in VB so how do i actually get it to display ???

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  2. Oct 27th, 2000, 03:50 AM #2
    chrisa_uk
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    You need to put '&&' to show a single &.

    If it is in a database field you will need to replace all &'s with &&.

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  3. Oct 27th, 2000, 03:53 AM #3
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    Smile

    Thanks Chris, i figured it would be something silly like that but could'nt seem to find the answer ...

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  4. Oct 27th, 2000, 05:35 AM #4
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    The other option is to turn off the UseMnemonic property (make it false). That stops VB interpreting the & as an underline. A lot easier than search adn replace

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