Parsing Long text string into smaller strings
GGrimm@pcc-structurals.com
GGrimm@pcc-structurals.com
Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:03:31 -0700
I would like some "elegant" solution to my challenge. If any of you
have something to suggest, please provide psuedo-code either to the
list or me privately.
The QUIZ report has a long text description field of 360 characters,
consisting of from 0 or more words separated by spaces. I need to
parse them into words in 39 character strings. The math shows the
most strings would be 10. If a word exceeds 39 characters (a user
error) we would parse at 39 characters, not a space.
A report mock up would look something like the following:
Employee --Last Name-- Hire Date -Marital- --Supervisor notes---
080123 SMITH 01/15/92 MARRIED This employee has ..
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and furthermore, ...
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ with never any .....
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and brings flowers..
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ on occassion even...
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ buys lunch and has..
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ alway done a good job.
(If the Supervisor notes don't line up under the report heading,
please use your imagination.) Thanks for any ideas.
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