RE: Text on report

As a thought, 
If your report is 80 characters wide,  create a variable in your O specs 80
characters long, and then in your C specs fill the variable with an EVAL
command, and then write the line, and then fill the variable again with your
text and write the line, and so on, until your paragraph is done...
Just a thought....
tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Langston [SMTP: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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