Split Large Text Field into several smaller fields

[Scott Walker]

Scott Walker wrote:

>Does anyone have a couple of lines of code to take a 200 character
>description field (I imported it from a customer supplied text file)
and
>break it up into (4) 54 character description fields (how my filePro
>application has it stored).  
>


Walter said:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<soapbox>
I would submit that *your* application is incorrectly designed, and you
are breaking *good* data up in order to make it fit into little pegs.
</soapbox>
<flamebait>
The 1980's called. It's looking for it's copy of the filePro 16 version
3.0 manual.
</flamebait>



Scott says:

Walter, I can only assume that Santa was _NOT_ good to you this year:-)

Anyhow, that's when this application was designed, 1987, to run on a 386
with a 150mb hard drive.  It ain't all bad...it allows up to 999 line
items on an order, with up to 90 lines of description (of 54 characters
each) for each line item.  It's processed about 4 million orders to date
and still chugging away.  I sure would not design it the same way today
but when something has this much real world testing in it you don't
always throw away the baby with the bath water.

Regards,

Scott