Re: Text on report

Since you are asking the worst of two evils, I vote for the file routine.
If you load a 80 or 132 variable from a file and print it, it allows you to
change the wording or paragragh on the fly.  No recompiling or maintaining
the program.

That is my 2 cents.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Langston <jlangston@conexfreight.com>
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Date: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 2:51 PM
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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