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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Need help with a function to process text and print it

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Soldier X1
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Posted: 7th Aug 2007 21:36
Ok the piece of code I need help with is below. Now what I was tring to do was write a function that would take a large paragraph and print out sentences about 65 charectors long without me going and making seperate print statements for each one. However after I got it working I realized that it doesn't take in account that it sometimes splits words between sentences, so... I decided to fix it but instead I have messed it up a bit and got lost. I would appreciate any help or tips. Thanks.

Zergei
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Posted: 8th Aug 2007 02:57 Edited at: 8th Aug 2007 02:58
Did some work on it, trying not to midify the structure you've used. So far it worked for me, so try it out.



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Posted: 8th Aug 2007 05:07
Oh thanks a million! I was ready to rewrite the thing, works great!
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Posted: 8th Aug 2007 16:39
I did something similar for the text adventure contest. If I was you though look into the command "text width" to work out where to split. I basically use text width to work out where the sentence will stop when it hits my margin (end of screen normally) then go backwards to find a space (remember to handle it if there is no space; just a really long word). Annoying with DBP's rubbish text commands, but fairly straight forward.

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