Re: Text on report

You can. 

Colin Williams wrote:
> 
> Sorry to ask a strange question, but why can't it just be put into a
> file, and read in?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: L. S. Russell [mailto:leslier@datrek.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 1:28 PM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Text on report
> 
> Why not put the text in a user space and read the text into a variable
> and write it out.
> 
> Joel Fritz wrote:
> >
> > All you have to do with the array is make it arbitrarily
> large (enough to
> > hold the text any way) and mark the end with a delimiter like
> '//end' or
> > something equally creative.  Once you start thinking in terms
> of control
> > codes, it's like Bank Street Writer or Text 38 all over
> again--possibilities
> > are limitless.<G>  Condition the loop on finding the end
> marker.  It does
> > involve incrementing the array index  manually and watching
> for overflow,
> > though.  Just having gone through a round of sending out
> batches of e-mail
> > with the text in a file, I can see some advantages to the
> array.  You can
> > edit the text and get AS/400 WYSIWYG.
> >
> > 'Course, if you put the text in a source member, you can
> actually edit it
> > with Text 38.<g>
> >
> > Again, it's a matter of taste, and whether the text is likely
> to change.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bmorris@ca.ibm.com [mailto:bmorris@ca.ibm.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 4:02 PM
> > To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> > Subject: Re: Text on report
> >
> > >Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 11:44:41 -0700
> > >From: Jim Langston <jlangston@conexfreight.com>
> > >
> > >I have a report to generate that has quite a bit of text on it.
> > >A whole paragraph, basically.
> > >
> > >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.
> > > ...
> >
> > Jim, unless you're absolutely positive you'll never want to to
> > change the text, put it in a file, and just read it line by line.
> > If you use an array, you have to worry about the exact number
> > of lines (too many, and you get an error; too few, and you
> > have to make sure you don't print a blank line).
> >
> > I'm not sure what the folks suggesting named constants or EVAL
> > had in mind, but it seems to me that if you code the text as
> > a single long string, you would have to write extra code to
> > re-separate it into lines.
> >
> > >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.
> > > ...
> >
> > What you're referring to here is called a pre-run array.  These
> > are ok for reading things like messages or month-names where the
> > number of elements is well-defined, but for text that has a
> > varying number of lines, they're awkward.
> >
> > Barbara Morris
> >
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