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Conference abbott::visual_basic

Title:	Microsoft Visual Basic

Moderator:	TAMARA::DFEDOR::fedor

Created:	Thu May 02 1991
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	2565
Total number of notes:	10453

2505.0. "Multiline problem" by WMOIS::DUTEAU_N () Mon Feb 24 1997 10:52

    
    I have a multiline text box that I store in an ACCESS table.  I also
    need to Print this text box out to a file to printed.  My problem is
    that if I just use the print command and the text box, the output is
    longer than 80 characters (if the user enter that many of course). 
    I can segment out the characters by 80 but that does not insure me that
    some words won't be split up.  
    
    	Any suggestions?
    
    
    							Norman Duteau

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	For each line, if the line length is greater than 80 then use the function Instr (see help for details of how to use it) in a loop to find the last space before the 80th character and break the line there. Or be a bit more sophisticated and broaden your search using Instr to any white space. Cheers, Brian

    For each line, if the line length is greater than 80 then use the
    function Instr (see help for details of how to use it) in a loop to
    find the last space before the 80th character and break the line there.
    
    Or be a bit more sophisticated and broaden your search using Instr to
    any white space.
    
    Cheers,
    Brian