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<font face="Arial">The routine operation '''<font face="Arial">Formatted Width</font>'''<font face="Arial"> (in the Labels submenu) will return the width in characters that the target attribute/cell would take to display. This works for label and numerically formatted values.<br /><br /><font face="MS Sans Serif"><br /> </font></font></font>
The width of a string, label or formatted form of an attribute can be determined using the strlen() expression function along with an "="&nbsp;routine operation, eg:
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p.width = strlen(p.mytext)
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An older way to do this was using the routine operation '''FormattedWidth()'''
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Latest revision as of 19:55, 13 December 2013

The width of a string, label or formatted form of an attribute can be determined using the strlen() expression function along with an "=" routine operation, eg:

p.width = strlen(p.mytext)

An older way to do this was using the routine operation FormattedWidth()

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