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[toml_12953]

Is there any way to determine the current column an item is being printed in? I need a TAB function in my programs to align output. Example;

PRINT(A+TAB(20)+B);

Variable B would always print starting in column 20 no matter how large or small A was.

I don't see any way to do something like that. If there was a function such as LLOC() that gave the current position of the cursor, I could do this:

Code:


EXPORT TAB(X);
BEGIN
  LOCAL TEMP:="";
  FOR I FROM LLOC() TO X DO
    TEMP:=TEMP+" ";
  END;
  RETURN TEMP;
END;

If A was two characters long, TAB(20) would return a string of 18 blanks. If A was 5 characters long, TAB(20) would return 15 blanks. You get the idea.