Par2: Extracting strings from text 2001-11-25 -- Ray Goudie >What would be a smart way loop through a textfield (CSTRING(4001))
>extracting 80 character long rows and avoiding to split words?
I had to do the same thing, a number of years ago. Here is some
quick-and-dirty code that will achieve what you are looking for. It only
splits on spaces.
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ROW_WIDTH equate(80)
textField cstring(4001)
rowText cstring(ROW_WIDTH + 1)
textLength ushort
startPosition ushort
ndx ushort
code
!!! textField gets set somehow.
textLength = len(textField)
startPosition = 1
endPosition = ROW_WIDTH
loop
!!! Fetch default row width.
rowText = sub(textField, startPosition, ROW_WIDTH)
!!! Consider the first character of the next row.
if textField[startPosition + ROW_WIDTH] <> ' '
!!! Reduce length of row while the last character of the current row
is not a space.
!!! Any characters at the end of the current row belong with
characters at the
!!! beginning of the next row.
ndx = ROW_WIDTH
loop while rowText[ndx] <> ' '
ndx -= 1
until ndx = 1
end
rowText = clip(sub(rowText, startPosition, ndx)) !!! To clip trailing
space(s).
do processRow
!!! Set start position for the next row.
startPosition += ndx
until startPosition > textLength
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Hope I didn't miss anything.
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