WORDWRAP

The WORDWRAP operator divides a long text string into segments that appear in successive lines of a 4GL report. (This operator can appear only in the PRINT statement in the FORMAT section of a REPORT program block.)

temporary is an integer expression whose returned value specifies the absolute position (in characters), counting from the left edge of the page, of a temporary right margin.

TEXT variable is the name of a 4GL variable of the TEXT data type.

The WORDWRAP operator automatically wraps successive segments of long character strings onto successive lines of output from a 4GL report. The string value of any expression or TEXT variable that is too long to fit between the current character position and the specified or default right margin is divided into segments and displayed between temporary margins:

The current character position becomes the temporary left margin.

Unless you specify RIGHT MARGIN temporary, the right margin defaults to 132, or to the size from the RIGHT MARGIN clause of the OUTPUT section.

Specify WORDWRAP RIGHT MARGIN integer expression to set a temporary right margin, counting from the left edge of the page. This cannot be smaller than the current character position, nor greater than 132 (or else the size from the RIGHT MARGIN clause of the OUTPUT section). The current character position becomes the temporary left margin. These temporary values override the specified or default left and right margins from the OUTPUT section.

After the PRINT statement has executed, any explicit or default margins from the OUTPUT section are restored.

References

LINENO

PAGENO

SPACES