Re: sqr page break

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Denise,

You are completely correct.  Sorry.  Must have been the medication for my
'New Years Celebration' injury.  :) Thanks for noticing and correcting me.

Melissia


>From: "White, Denise" <DWHITE@SYSTEMS.TEXTRON.COM>
>Reply-To: sqr-users@list.iex.net
>To: SQR-USERS@list.iex.net
>Subject: Re: sqr page break
>Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:01:16 -0500
>
>The sequence of write statements in the message below will not do what is
>described.  Each write statement will write a separate line.  Instead of:
>
>write 1 from $variable1:20
>write 1 from $spacer:5
>write 1 from $variable2:10
>
>use:
>
>write 1 from $variable1:25 $variable2:10
>
>You could still use the $spacer variable, but it is simpler to just pad the
>first variable by increasing the size.
>
>Denise White
>(about to change jobs)
>
> > -----Original Message-----
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> >
> > Date:    Mon, 3 Jan 2000 17:44:22 GMT
> > Subject: Re: sqr page break
> >
> > Brad,
> >
> > Just a thought - If you wrote the report to a flat file, instead of a
>.lis
> > file, you would have more control over the formatting.
> >
> > To accomplish, put this in your main procedure:
> >
> > open c:\temp\myfile.txt as 1
> > for-writing
> > record=200   !this line declares the max width of the file
> >
> > Then, in your procedure where you would type:
> > print $variable1 (,1,20)
> > print $variable2 (,25,10)
> >
> > instead type:
> > let $spacer = 5
> > write 1 from $variable1:20
> > write 1 from $spacer:5
> > write 1 from $variable2:10
> >
> > This will print $variable1 starting at position 1 for a length of 20,
>skip
> > 5
> > spaces, then $variable2 starting at position 25 for a length of 10.
>Each
> > time the system goes through the select loop, it automatically drops
>down
> > one line.
> >
> > Melissia
> > ----------------------
> > Melissia D. Dembrosky
> > Technical Consultant
> > MBH Consulting
> > 770-998-2323

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