Re: Breaking text

[Captain Jerry <captainjerry@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'd start at the 25th character and work back until I found the first space.
Then you split the text up at that position. Much simpler than scanning
forward.

>It's quite possible you truncate characters doing this. If you have >all 50
>characters filled with words and you backed up a few characters >to break 
on
>a space into the second 25 character field you'd end up losing a >few
>characters on the end of the 50 character string.

>Paul

I was thinking of this same method -- Start at position 25 and scan (or is 
it check?) L(eft) for the first space, then yeah, you'll have to figure out 
from that point forward if you have more then 25 characters worth of data 
left and split to a third line, or truncate, or whatever you can do within 
your data restrictions.

//CJ/

 

 On 8/22/05, Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> 
> 
> > I'd start at the 25th character and work back until I found the first 
> space.
> > Then you split the text up at that position. Much simpler than scanning
> > forward.
> 
> This is the way I do it as well, except that I always start in the 26th
> spot instead of the 25th. (It's okay for the 25th position to be a
> non-space, since that'll still fit into a 25A field)
> 
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