[Gambas-user] COBOL and how great it was!

[Jussi Lahtinen]

I see... you can use tabs this way:
Print Cust.ID & gb.Tab & Cust.Name & gb.Tab & Cust.Balance & gb.Tab &
Cust.Phone

Many tabs by String(n, gb.Tab). Not very handy though. I think it is best
to write your own function to show things neatly.
See here to learn how to take variable amount of parameters:
http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/comp/gb/param

This would be a nice feature... but I can do it only with C.
Print [0,6,50,70], Cust.ID, Cust.Name, Cust.Balance, Cust.Phone


Jussi

On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 2:49 AM BB <adamnt42 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 19/11/22 5:15 am, Jussi Lahtinen wrote:
>
> Sorry, I don't understand the question. There is "print" keyword and the
> output goes to stdout.
>
> Jussi
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 2:23 PM BB <adamnt42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> [junk]
>>
>>
> No, I'm sorry. I (in a saner frame of mind) actually meant:
>
> surely in this day and age it is possible to come up with "something"
> that would allow use to "Print" a set of stuff to stdout (or wherever) *in
> a formatted set of columns* rather than a ragged bunch of lines.
>
> By way of example
>
> For each Cust
>
>     Print Cust.ID, Cust.Name, Cust.Balance, Cust.Phone
>
> Next
>
> gives lines like
>
> 312	Mary K Jones    350	0423-614-012
> 472	Jim Bo    75.5	0416-763-274
> 666	The Devil Incarnate Himself    99.999	0413-100-200
> 2   Bozo Dog	1.23	0413-627-123
>
> The example is trivial but for longer Print commands it becomes almost
> totally unreadable.
>
> What I'm looking for is a *simple* way to format the output. Something
> like
>
>     Print Cust.ID; Tab(6); Cust.Name; Tab(50); Cust.Balance; Tab(70); Cust.Phone
> or maybe
>     Print [0,6,50,70], Cust.ID, Cust.Name, Cust.Balance, Cust.Phone
> where the numbers are the starting position for the next item
>
> that would give
>
> 312   Mary K Jones    		     350	0423-614-012
> 472   Jim Bo                         75.5	0416-763-274
> 666   The Devil Incarnate Himself    99.999	0413-100-200
> 2     Bozo Dog			     1.23	0413-627-123
>
> b
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