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How to give space after every character of a string in jasper reports. I need this functionality to print date according to cheque format. I am new to jasper. Please help me in this.

Gaurav Manwani
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Adding blank to every character

unfortunately Jasperreports doesn't support letter spacing (source)

However you can always use java in text fields to tranform the string and add a blank character after each character.

For example in case you have a field myString (source for java part):

<textFieldExpression>
    <![CDATA[$F{myString}.replace("", " ").trim()]]>
</textFieldExpression>

More specifically on dates

Java also provides nice feature to format a date. You might consider this as you specified you were working with dates.

An example of date formatting :

<variable name="dateFormatter" class="java.text.SimpleDateFormat">
    <variableExpression><![CDATA[new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd")]]></variableExpression>
</variable>
<textFieldExpression>
    <![CDATA[$V{dateFormatter}.format($F{myDate})]]>
</textFieldExpression>

See full documentation here

Matthias Beaupère
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replaceAll() works fine in jasper reports only if RegularExpression is added in the imports. value="com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.xpath.regex.RegularExpression"/>

$P{mystring}.replaceAll("", " ").trim()

Nayana
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