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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
xmlns:e="http://projectmallard.org/experimental/"
type="guide"
id="mergeskipfields">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="index#merging"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.0" version="0.1" date="2010-05-04" status="incomplete"/>
<desc>
How to skip blank address lines when doing a document merge.
</desc>
<credit type="author">
<name>Jim Evins</name>
<email>evins@snaught.com</email>
</credit>
<credit type="author">
<name>Mario Blättermann</name>
<email>mariobl@gnome.org</email>
</credit>
<license>
<p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
</license>
</info>
<title>Skipping blank address lines</title>
<p>This feature can be best described by a simple example. In the
following CSV file, column 5 (ADDR2) contains the second address line
for each record. This field is empty in records 1 and 2, but not in
record 3. (For this feature to work, the field must be completely
empty -- any text, including spaces will defeat this feature.)</p>
<code>
LAST,FIRST,MI,ADDR1,ADDR2,CITY,STATE,ZIP
Summers,Joyce,,"1630 Revello Dr",,Sunnydale,CA,95037
McGarret,Steve,O,"404 Piikoi Street",,Honolulu,HI,96813
Kramer,Cosmo,,"Apt 5B","129 W. 81 St.","New York",NY,10024-7207
</code>
<p>In the following screenshot, a single multiline text object has been
created to format these addresses. Notice that ${ADDR2} representing
the second address line is on a line by itself. (Any additional text
on this line, including spaces would defeat this feature.)</p>
<media type="image" src="figures/skip-fields-screenshot.png" mime="image/png" style="right">
<p>Multi-line address</p>
</media>
<p>Printing this label results in the following output. Notice that the
line containing the ${ADDR2} field is completely skipped for the first
two records, without printing a blank line.</p>
<media type="image" src="figures/skip-fields-output.png" mime="image/png" style="right">
<p>Output</p>
</media>
</page>
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