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BDAVIS
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Is it possible? I have a page of a compound report where all of the text formatting and variables are defined in the heading. One of those variables is a title -- a field that varies from nothing to about 200 characters. I'd like to wrap it down to the next few lines if it's long. The only way I could think to do this is to use substr -- something like this:

TITLE1/A50 = SUBSTR(200, TITLE, 1, 50, 50, 'A50');
TITLE2/A50 = SUBSTR(200, TITLE, 51, 100, 50, 'A50');
TITLE3/A50 = SUBSTR(200, TITLE, 101, 150, 50, 'A50');
TITLE4/A50 = SUBSTR(200, TITLE, 151, 200, 50, 'A50');

And then list title1, title2, title3, title4 out on separate lines in the heading. This works, but the problem is it chops words in half. Any suggestions?

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WebFOCUS 7.6.3 | Solaris 10 | Excel, PDF
 
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GinnyJakes
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Look at PARAG. It is useful in these situations.


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Waz
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With PDF, you can use WRAP.
DEFINE FILE CAR
 LONG_LINE/A100 = 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' ;
 DUMMY/A1 WITH COUNTRY = ' ' ;
END
TABLE FILE CAR
HEADING
"<LONG_LINE"
 SUM DUMMY      AS ''
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
UNITS=CM, PAGESIZE='A4', LEFTMARGIN=0.635000, RIGHTMARGIN=0.635000,
    TOPMARGIN=0.635000, BOTTOMMARGIN=0.635000, SQUEEZE=ON,
    ORIENTATION=LANDSCAPE, $
TYPE=REPORT, GRID=OFF, FONT=TIMES NEW ROMAN, $
TYPE=HEADING, LINE=1, ITEM=1, OBJECT=FIELD, WRAP=2, $
ENDSTYLE
END


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BDAVIS
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Thanks Waz, that worked for the most part. Is it possible to center it? I tried justify=center but no go. Also, is it possible to control the wrap width?


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BDAVIS
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Disregard my last message. The wrap through the style is pushing the rest of my report down. I went with a PARAG/GETTOK instead.

For future reference
Something like this:
PARAGS/A300 = PARAG(299, TITLE, '|', 75, PARAGS);
SUB1/A75=GETTOK(PARAGS, 300, 1, '|', 75, SUB1);
SUB2/A75=GETTOK(PARAGS, 300, 2, '|', 75, SUB2);
SUB3/A75=GETTOK(PARAGS, 300, 3, '|', 75, SUB3);
SUB4/A75=GETTOK(PARAGS, 300, 3, '|', 75, SUB4);


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Darin Lee
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Using WRAP, you can't justify it, You can use a sport marker to approximate the center, but each line will still be left justified. If you wuse the PARAG function, breaking it into individual fields, each field on its own line, then the justify=center will work.

As for the second question, I would suggest when you're given code as an answer for a problem, you'll learn better if you go through the solution and play with it a little to find out why that solution fixes your problem. Just plugging in the solution and counting it good solves the problem, but you'll have the same question again in the future if you haven't learned the concept.

Hint: Play with the number after the WRAP= and see what you get.


Regards,

Darin


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Darin Lee
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You beat me to the post. Excellent!


Regards,

Darin


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