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- From: donh@shakala.com (Don Hackler)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
- Subject: Re: Visual Basic Win 2.0
- Message-ID: <X0s5wB4w165w@shakala.com>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 22:49:56 GMT
- References: <1993Jan8.223222.16819@news.ysu.edu>
- Organization: Shakala BBS (ClanZen Radio Network) Sunnyvale, CA 408-734-2289
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- af734@yfn.ysu.edu (Andy Klein) writes:
-
- >
- > I'm using Visual BASIC Standard Edition v2.0 and I've run into
- > the following dilemma. I'm trying to create an array of string by
- > concatenating two other values together, but would like the two
- > columns of data to each be left justified. However, the font that
- > I am using contains letters of different widths. For instance,
- > assume an array of strings called Names$() and an array of integers
- > called Num%() contain the following made-up data:
- >
- > Names$(1) = "Samuel" Num%(1) = 15
- > Names$(2) = "Richard" Num%(2) = 3
- > Names$(3) = "Al" Num%(3) = 221
- > Names$(4) = "James" Num%(4) = 54
- > Names$(5) = "Bob" Num%(5) = 11
- >
- > I would then like to create a second string array called Results$()
- > that contained the following:
- >
- > Results$(1) = "Samuel 15"
- > Results$(2) = "Richard 3"
- > Results$(3) = "Al 221"
- > Results$(4) = "James 54"
- > Results$(5) = "Bob 11"
- >
- > My problem is that since the characters in MS-Windows aren't all
- > the same pixel width, the column of numbers is not vertically lined
- > up correctly when I print the results. Is there a way to get the
- > second column of numbers to be lined up? Thanks,
- > Andy Klein
-
- Print them separately so that the second column can be positioned
- independently of the first.
- - or -
- Use a fixed-width font (such as one of the Courier variations)
- so that the columns line up automatically.
-
- - don
-
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