Text Reformat

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Mar 5 2009, 12:51 pm
I'm trying to come up with a proc that will take a long string and shorten it into multi-lines if its longer then a selected number.
Mar 5 2009, 1:05 pm
For that, all you need is a for loop and the copytext() proc.
Mar 5 2009, 1:24 pm
In response to Popisfizzy
Ok. I'll play around with it.
Mar 5 2009, 2:41 pm
In response to Lundex
Ok, not working. Help plz.
Mar 5 2009, 2:44 pm
In response to Lundex
 
proc/reformat(text, characters)
    var/length = length(text) //Store the length of the text.
    for(var/a = 1, a <= length, a += characters)
        text = copytext(text, 1, a) + "\n" + copytext(text, a + 1)
        a ++
        length ++

See if that works. text is the text to reformat, and characters is the number of characters to start adding the linebreaks at.
Mar 5 2009, 2:54 pm
In response to Popisfizzy
Thanks...