Thanks Donovan
That works fine.
Thought that it wasn't working for a while until I realised that you have to
used a monospaced font!
Appreciate you help
Mark
"Donovan J. Edye" wrote:
> M,
>
> Have a look at the Format() function. Try these out....
>
> ShowMessage('|' + Format('%-10s', ['123']) + '|');
> ShowMessage('|' + Format('%10s', ['123']) + '|');
>
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> Donovan J. Edye [www.edye.wattle.id.au]
> Namadgi Systems, Delphi Developer
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Mark Howard
> Sent: Wednesday, 31 May 2000 15:11
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: [DUG]: Building formatted strings
>
> Hi
> Another newbie question.
>
> I'm wanting to concatenate 3 strings together into TMemo lines
> such that the line will print as 3 columns. Each of the strings
> is of variable length. Is there a lazy way of achieving this?
>
> In MBasic (about 100 years ago) you used to be able to LSet or
> RSet a string into a fixed length container string.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark
>
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