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CHEKR is what you want to do then, as one of the parms is the r-position to start searching at. You'll need to build a string of all valid characters, be sure to include !@#$%^&*()_+{}[]|\'";:/?.>,<~` Regards, Jim Langston -----Original Message----- From: Wills, Mike N. (TC) [mailto:MNWills@taylorcorp.com] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 9:47 AM To: 'rpg400-l@midrange.com' Subject: RE: Text wrapping question But that won't work in this case, will it? >>>Let's say this is my string: This is a sentence that is longer than what will fit in my field. >>>Currently my report looks like this (%subst(string:1:37)): This is a sentence that is longer tha n what will fit in my field. >>>I want it to look like this (%subst(string:1:last space but less than 37)): This is a sentence that is longer than what will fit in my field. -----Original Message----- From: Booth Martin [mailto:Booth@MartinVT.com] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 11:25 AM To: rpg400-l@midrange.com Subject: Re: Text wrapping question What about: %len(%TrimR(Text)) + 1 Would that do what you wish? ----------------------------------------------- Booth Martin ResoDirect, ext. 528 BMartin@ResoDirect.com Booth@MartinVT.com http://www.MartinVT.com ----------------------------------------------- -------Original Message------- From: rpg400-l@midrange.com Date: Thursday, May 23, 2002 11:52:23 To: Midrange - RPG (E-mail) Subject: Text wrapping question I need to do some text wrapping and am trying to figure out how to locate the last space in the text. We are on V4R5. I know I can do it in a loop, I was just wondering if there is already a bif that can do it. Mike Wills IT Corporate Support Taylor Corporation mnwills@taylorcorp.com Phone: (507) 386-3187 _______________________________________________ This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing list To post a message email: RPG400-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/rpg400-l or email: RPG400-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l. _______________________________________________ This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing list To post a message email: RPG400-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/rpg400-l or email: RPG400-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l. _______________________________________________ This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing list To post a message email: RPG400-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/rpg400-l or email: RPG400-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l.
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