RE: Text on report

My personal favorite is the compile time array, although I think it's a
matter of taste.  One advantage is having it all in your source.  Some
people might see this as a disadavantage.  I've written several reports that
have 2 or 3 pages of documentation imbedded in them--the end users turn over
fast enough that it actually makes sense to do it this way.


-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Langston [mailto:jlangston@conexfreight.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 11:45 AM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Text on report


I have a report to generate that has quite a bit of text on it.  A whole
paragraph, basically.

I'm not using the reports, but O specs in my RPG program.  I know some would
say, and probably rightfully so, to use a report program for this, but I
want to do this in O specs.

My question is, how do you feel would be the best way to get this long text
data into my program to print on the page?  There are a number of ways I
could do it, including puting it in a file, then opening it and reading it a
line at a time into a variable and printing it out.  Or I could do a Compile
time array and stick it on the bottom of my program.

I could type out the text in the O specs and just space it accordingly, but
the rather short length of the input fields for the O specs for constants
kinda limits me on this.

There is another type of array, I think, where I could create the file and
then load the array with the information at run time from the file, though
I've never done that before.

Does anyone have any other, maybe even better, suggestions?

Regards,

Jim Langston

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