Re: centering text on a field

I use this procedure. You pass a string + the length of the result field
and it returns the string centered. It is limited to 256 characters.

?     * Procedure Interface
     PCenter           B                   EXPORT

     DCenter           PI           256

     D instring                     256    CONST

     D strlen                         3p 0 CONST


?     * work fields
     D outstring       S            256

     Dwork_arr         S              1    dim(256)

     Dx                S              3  0

     Dstrt             S              3  0


?     * PROCEDURE CALCS

?    C                   IF        instring = *blanks

     C                   RETURN    *blanks

?    C                   ENDIF

?     * load the array
     C                   MOVEA     instring      work_arr

?     * Read thru finding the first non-blank character
?    C     256           DO        256           x

?    C                   IF        work_arr(x) <> ' '

     C                   LEAVE

?    C                   ENDIF

?    C                   ENDDO     -1

?     * if the last non-blank character is the length of the output or the
length
?     *  of the output - 1, move the input to the output and return
?    C                   IF        x = strlen or

?    C                             x = (strlen - 1)

     C                   MOVEL     instring      outstring

     C                   RETURN    outstring

?    C                   ENDIF

?     * assure that the length is less than the maximum number (255)
?     *  and calculate the center position of the output
?    C                   IF        x < 255

     C                   EVAL      strt = ((strlen - x) / 2) + 2

?    C                   ELSE

     C                   EVAL      strt = 1

?    C                   ENDIF

?     * move the output
?    C

     C                   EVAL      %subst(outstring:strt:x) =

     C                             %subst(instring:1:x)

?     *
     C                   RETURN    outstring

     P                 E

Thanks,

Mark

Mark D. Walter
Senior Programmer/Analyst
CCX, Inc.
mwalter@xxxxxxxxxx
http://www.ccxinc.com


                                                                                
                                                                    
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What is the current best practice to center text of unknown length in a
field of unknown length?

It occurs to me I am making it much too difficult.

(free form is nice I suppose but an example in ordinary RPGIV would be
easier for me to understand)

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