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The main body of this was taken from a Bob Cozzi example I think.  If not
then I apologize to the person who I got it from.


*,--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------
     H nomain

*,--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------
     H debug(*YES)
     H indent('| ')
     H option(*SRCSTMT)

*,--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------
     D CenterFld       PR         32766    OpDesc
     D   FieldToCtr               32766    Options(*varsize)

*,--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------
     P CenterFld       B                   Export

*,--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------
     D CenterFld       PI         32766    OpDesc
     D   FieldToCtr               32766    Options(*varsize)

*,--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------
     D CEEDOD          PR
     D   ParmNum                     10I 0 Const
     D                               10I 0
     D                               10I 0
     D                               10I 0
     D                               10I 0
     D                               10I 0
     D                               12A   Options(*omit)

*,--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------
     D DescType        S             10I 0 Inz
     D DataType        S             10I 0 Inz
     D DescInfo1       S             10I 0 Inz
     D DescInfo2       S             10I 0 Inz
     D InLen           S             10I 0 Inz
     D HexLen          S             10I 0 Inz

*,--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------
     D X               S              5  0 Inz
     D Y               S              5  0 Inz
     D Z               S              5  0 Inz

*,--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------
     D ReturnFld       S                   Like(FieldToCtr)

*,--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------

     C                   CallP     CEEDOD( 1         :
     C                                     DescType  :
     C                                     DataType  :
     C                                     DescInfo1 :
     C                                     DescInfo2 :
     C                                     InLen     :
     C                                     *omit )

     C                   Z-Add     InLen         X
     C     ' '           Checkr    FieldToCtr:X  Y
     C                   Eval      Z = ((X - Y) / 2) + 1

     C                   Eval      %subst(ReturnFld:Z:Y) =
     C                             %subst(FieldToCtr:1:Y)

     C                   Return    ReturnFld

     P CenterFld       E


*,--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------


John J. Walsh
IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 RPG IV Developer
IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 RPG IV Programmer

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 9:39 AM
Subject: centering text on a field


>
>
> 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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> Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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