Re: Breaking text

>>I don't care for the look of a full line and then one short word on the 
next line. I'd rather have a couple of words, at least, on the second line 
when the field is over 25 characters.

That makes sense. Why make it look funky if you could just wrap another word 
or two around?
 //CJ/

 On 8/22/05, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> 
> I'd agree with this, but I also look at the entire length of the string. 
> If
> the entire length is over 25 but under 30 or so, I'd start looking at 
> about
> character 20. I don't care for the look of a full line and then one short
> word on the next line. I'd rather have a couple of words, at least, on the
> second line when the field is over 25 characters.
> 
> If the field has a length of ((length - field break) > 25) then I just
> break at 25 as characters will be truncated otherwise. (I hope that 
> formula
> is correct. I want to be sure that part 2 of the string is 25 or less;
> otherwise just split it at 25.)
> 
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> Booth Martin
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> -------Original Message-------
> 
> From: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Date: 08/22/05 13:40:35
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: Re: Breaking text
> 
> > 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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