Centering lines on reports...

[Kenneth Brody]

Fairlight wrote:
> 
> The honourable and venerable John Esak spoke thus:
> >        Then: mid(aa,"40"-len(ab)/"2",len(ab))=ab
> 
> John, shouldn't that be "80"-len(ab)/"2" rather than 40?  By your formula,
> you'd be centering on the 20th column, wouldn't you?

Division has higher precedence than addition.  Therefore, John's code is
equivalent to:

    "40" - ( len(ab)/"2" )

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