Re: [LINUX5250] word wrap

[phil <phillip.watts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Rich wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> I've run into a problem implementing word wrap.  When a word doesn't fit 
> at the end of a field, I need to put it on the next field and pad with 
> blanks.  However, I need to distinguish between blanks I use for padding 
> and those blanks the user entered.  My best idea so far is to use 
> special characters and then modify the functions for display to replace 
> them with blanks.  Initially I have chosen to use hex FE since my charts 
> show that as a non-existent character in both EBCDIC and ASCII.  
> Interestingly, it still maps to a character.  I think this idea is the 
> way to go (it is working) but I need a non-blank character that can't 
> possibly be a valid display character.  Any suggestions?

How about 0x00?
I don't understand.
Assuming this is driven by keyboard interrupt, If the last char a user 
entered on line 1 is space, you don't need to word wrap. just
position the cursor on the line 2.  If the last char was non space,
just grab the last word.