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From: markj@informix.com (Mark Jeske(Chicago Consultan)t)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Continued Fields in Informix4gl?
Message-ID: <1990Sep25.033058.28400@informix.com>
Date: 25 Sep 90 03:30:58 GMT
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In article <1990Sep21.103544.28493@basis.uucp> karl@basis.uucp (Karl Wiebe) writes:
>In article <4194@husc6.harvard.edu>,
>bochner@lange.harvard.EDU (Harry Bochner) writes:
>> How do you handle a character field that's too long for the screen in 4gl?
>> What I want is to split the field into 2 screen fields, so that the second
>> acts as a continuation of the first.
>> Perform handles this pretty nicely: you can say
>> f1 = tab.str[1,78];
>> f2 = tab.str[79,156];
>> and it does what you want, i.e. it maps the 2 screen fields onto one database
>> column.

You might also want to look into our new 4.0 products which contain a new
attribute for fields call WORDRAP which enables a multiline editor and
automatically moves whole words to the next line as they are inserted.

Try it, you'll like it.

Mark Jeske (Informix consulting)
markj@infmx.com