[Gambas-user] Lenght of a string

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José,

A side note, no need also to use a FOR-NEXT to fill X spaces. You can do
it in a single step:

  'for i = 1 to (115 - len(name))
  '  name = name & Space$(1)
  'next
  name = String.Left$(name & Space$(115), 115)

If you need the spaces at the left (for example to right-align numbers),
you do the opposite:

  numberString = String.Right$(Space$(places) & Str$(number), places) 
'The number will be right-aligned to "places" spaces and returned in
numberString.

As Oliver pointed, you should use the UTF-8 versions of the calls;
otherwise you will have less than the expected characters in the
resulting string.

Regards,
zxMarce.

On 2016-04-06 11:00, Oliver Etchebarne Bejarano wrote:
> You are writing utf-8 characteres, so the 'é' and the 'ô' are two bytes 
> long ("José Antônio" is 12 chars but 14 bytes long).
>
> I think you should either remove the tildes, or use UTF-8 string 
> functions (like String.len() instead of len()) for the calculations, and 
> then change the encoding to something like latin-1. And hope that your 
> system can understand the new encoding well...
>
>
> El 06/04/16 a las 07:48, José Monteiro escribió:
>> len("José Antônio") = 14
>> I need to fill a text file and upload it to a system in order to make an
>> invoice.
>> The field "name" must have lenght = 115. If shorter than that you must
>> complement it with spaces.
>> So:
>>
>>   for i = 1 to (115 - len(name))
>>     name = name & Space$(1)
>>   next
>>
>> The result is --> "José Antônio" + 101 spaces
>>
>> But, in the text file, "José Antônio" + 101 spaces is considered as having
>> lenght = 113, not 115.
>> The text file, then, is rejected by the system, because the following fields
>> are not being correctly interpreted.
>> Any sugestions?
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>>
>>
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