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ID:159468 Mar 5 2009, 2:51 pm
Lundex	I'm trying to come up with a proc that will take a long string and shorten it into multi-lines if its longer then a selected number.

#1 Mar 5 2009, 3:05 pm
Popisfizzy	For that, all you need is a `for` loop and the `copytext()` proc.

#2 Mar 5 2009, 3:24 pm In response to Popisfizzy (#1)
Lundex	Ok. I'll play around with it.

#3 Mar 5 2009, 4:41 pm In response to Lundex (#2)
Lundex	Ok, not working. Help plz.

#4 Mar 5 2009, 4:44 pm

In response to Lundex (#3)

Popisfizzy

proc/reformat(text, characters)
    var/length = length(text) //Store the length of the text.
    for(var/a = 1, a <= length, a += characters)
        text = copytext(text, 1, a) + "\n" + copytext(text, a + 1)
        a ++
        length ++

See if that works. text is the text to reformat, and characters is the number of characters to start adding the linebreaks at.

#5 Mar 5 2009, 4:54 pm In response to Popisfizzy (#4)
Lundex	Thanks...