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Article #271FileMaker Pro Question
From: Fred Puhan
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1992 05:58
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1992 05:58
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Here's an interesting (to me) problem: I would like to take name, address, and
telephone number fields from within a FileMaker Pro database and create
"telephone book"-style fields; i.e., given the following example:
name: SampleName
address: SampleAddress
city,State Zip: Anytown, XX NNNNN
phone: NNN-NNNN
I need to concatenate the name and address fields, add dot-leaders, then the
telephone number to yield:
formatted: SampleName SampleAddress........................NNN-NNNN
The question I have is how to calculate (and then fill) the number of periods
needed to "pad" the space between the listing data and the phone number. I
have no trouble calculating the length of the formatted name/address, and even
using a "fixed-length" for the formatted listing, am still not able to dynami-
cally perform a "repeat for" function to pad the dots. Any suggestions?
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From: Fred.Puhan@p4219.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Fred Puhan) Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!blkcat!Uucp Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases Subject: FileMaker Pro Question Message-ID: <715719654.F00001@blkcat.UUCP> Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1992 00:58:09 -0500 Lines: 32