Stacking labels from within a single attribute field

JamesSiddle

Hi

Its been touched on in some of the archived posts, but I can't seem to get this to work.

I want to label some points using the contents of a single text field. I'm familiar with using vbnewline for doing this with seperate fields, its quite simple. But i'd like to be able to stack labels based on inserting a symbol of some description (e.g.  '/' or '*') into the single field

E.g. :

"Started 2010 / under construction / still waiting on management approval" to look like this:

Started 2010
under construction
still waiting management approval

I found the following vbscript example in an archived thread:

Function FindLabel ( [myField] )
FindLabel = Replace( [myField], "/", vbCrLf)
End Function


But the expression editor says that using the Replace command is incorrect.

Help?

Thanks

MarkBoucher

I recently ran across a label script that wraps text: http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=12607

It looks like it counts characters and finds spaces so that the wrap starts in a logical place. You can adjust the length of the wrap. If your data have a typical length and are in one field, this might work. If your data have variable lengths, what you have would likely work better.