len of field

[Eric Chatonet]

Hi Jonathan,

You are right but I assumed that the condition (the only thing that  
Paul mentioned) would be included if needed :-)
Best.

Le 25 août 05 à 17:29, Lynch, Jonathan a écrit :

> There is a danger to this method:
>
> repeat until the number of chars of tVar = 14
>    put space after tVar
> end repeat
>
>
> if tVar happens to be 15 or greater, it will repeat forever.  
> Perhaps use tVar >= 14 ?
>
> Not that speed is an issue with this example, but with using method  
> it requires checking the number of characters in tVar for every pass.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use- 
> revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Eric Chatonet
> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 11:26 AM
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: Re: len of field
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> repeat until the number of chars of tVar = 14
>    put space after tVar
> end repeat
>
> or by building a function you can use elsewhere with any number of
> chars:
>
> put Extent(tVar,14) into fld "MyField"
>
> function Extent pString,pNumOfChars
>    repeat until the number of chars of pString = pNumOfChars
>      put space after pString
>    end repeat
>    return pString
> end Extent
>
> The last method is better: always think you want be able to reuse the
> code you write :-)
>
> Le 25 août 05 à 17:11, Paul Salyers a écrit :
>
>
>> I need to find out how to add spaces to a field length if the
>> number of characters are less than 14 to equal 14 charters.
>>
>> I'm using this:
>>
>> if the number of char  of tVar < 14 then (I need to add spaces to
>> equal 14 char)
>>
>
> Best Regards from Paris,
>
> Eric Chatonet.
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Best Regards from Paris,

Eric Chatonet.
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