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[Thomas]

When I had a problem, that a character string was not displayed properly with %st format code, I was able to write a short sample program to demonstrate the problem.

The program creates a sequence of 3 ClearWin forms to display slightly different character strings. However, the displayed strings in the first 2 cases are obviously incomplete. It seems that a certain sequence of characters is recognized as a terminating symbol.

The program is quite short. Therefore it can be listed below:

program test
implicit none
!
! Editor: Thomas Will
! Phone : +49/(0)211/4726-179
! e-mail: thomas.will@power.alstom.com
!
! ClearWin+ format code '%st' is not working properly
! in some cases
!
INCLUDE <windows.ins>
CHARACTER*80 string
INTEGER i
!
! incomplete output
string='Verzeichnis: P:TR_ANWENDUNGSTROEMUNGSBERECHNUNGPUMAUSBEISPIELE '
i=winio@('%67st',string(1:67))
!
! still incomplete (2 chars changed)
string='Verzeichnis: P:TR_ANWENDUNGSTROEMUNGSBERECHNUaaPUMAUSBEISPIELE '
i=winio@('%67st',string(1:67))
!
! complete (1 additional char changed)
string='Verzeichnis: P:TR_ANWENDUNGSTROEMUNGSBERECHNaaaPUMAUSBEISPIELE '
i=winio@('%67st',string(1:67))
!
stop
end

Thomas
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Thomas

[Martin]

The N in the %Nst format code specifies the width of the control in "average character" widths. The width of an average character may be less than the width of a large letter (e.g. a capital M). In your example the total pixel width of the first two strings is more than the last string. The first two strings are too long to fit inside 67 "average character widths" so they get word wrapped at the most appropiate place (i.e. at the last space).