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Blade

Wed Mar 19, 2003 7:37 pm


Grr... stupid put command things

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for some reason i cant get my strings to move over, when i want them to, but the integers will ! :( i dont know of any other way to do this though...
as an example


put "crap":20


what i'm trying to do is read 5 names, from a file, 5 marks, and 5 addresses and line them up in a table

as an example

John        123 Fake St.            86
Bill           45 Valley Ave 34

and so on...

but for some reason, i cant get strings to move over, and all that's readable from files are strings...


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Tony

Wed Mar 19, 2003 7:43 pm



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i donno... works for me. It adds extra spaces AFTER the string though.


put "":round(maxcol/2 - length("tony")/2), "tony"


that would put "tony" right in the center of the screen.


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Asok

Wed Mar 19, 2003 7:48 pm



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You need to calculate the correct variable for :x x is not always equal to 20 it is equal to 20 minus the characters before so everything starts on the same line.


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Blade

Wed Mar 19, 2003 7:56 pm



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well i think it still should move over, its not doing anything

edit:
haha i figured it out


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Vicous

Thu Mar 20, 2003 11:11 am



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strings and numbers are aligned different, strings will put the extra spaces to the right, numbers put extra spaces to the right eg.

put "Hi":20,"bye"
gives you 18 spaces (20-# of letters)

Hi__________________bye

var number:int:=10
put number,"Bye"

gives you 18 spaces, the number 10 followed by the word bye

__________________10Bye

I hope this explains it
P.S. 1 underscore (_) equals 1 space, the forum edits out extra spaces


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Blade

Thu Mar 20, 2003 11:32 am



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yea thanks, i was playin around with it and i figured it out... numbers have extra spaces before them, whereas strings have extra spaces after them :D