len of field

[David Burgun]

Here's my method!

repeat while the length of myVar < 14
put space before myVar  (or after)
end repeat





>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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