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Alkaline
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Posted: 9th Aug 2005 22:19
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hey all
ok i have my code to read a ini file with text and info mation in it for the config. well what i have in the text is

beepers=blah blah blah blah

the program reads what beepers is and textx it to the screen, well what i want is to limit the text to the screen so although the file says

beepers=blah blah blah blah

i want it the program to limit the amount of text and print to the screen

bla blah bl...
with the dots at the end...

hehe i know its a noob question but im just now getting in to db after modeling alot.

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Cookyzue
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Posted: 9th Aug 2005 23:07
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Not 100% sure if this what you mean but try this...

text x,y, left$(beepers$,amountofcharactersyouwant#)+"..."


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Alkaline
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Posted: 9th Aug 2005 23:11
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for the amount of charcters i want would that be 1 charcter for each letter, space,etc?

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Cookyzue
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Posted: 9th Aug 2005 23:16
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yes so..
beepers$="bob is a frog"
text x,y, left$(beepers$,6)+"..."

would return "bob is..."


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Louiz ofRohr
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Posted: 9th Aug 2005 23:32 Edited at: 10th Aug 2005 00:10
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ok..



This is gonna return the amount of each chacter in a string..
Please, notice that:

165x10
is much faster than
10x165

HTH

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