Write Positioning

[Ken]

Does any one know how I can position the output at certain
point? Such as If I want to print "hello" starting at
position 50 from the left in the file.

Ken

 

[Ray at]

What file? Just an normal html response? If so, you could probably do this
with some css stuff. Try asking in a group that covers css or html design.
I find comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets to be an alright group.

Ray at work

 

[Ken]

I am trying to print to simple flat file.

-----Original Message-----
What file? Just an normal html response? If so, you could probably do this
with some css stuff. Try asking in a group that covers css or html design.
I find comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets to be an alright group.

Ray at work




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[Ray at]

Print?

<% Response.Write String(49, " ") & "X" %>

That will put 49 spaces before X in the response.

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[Ray at]

If you have your response in a variable, like:


sTheResponse = "kja kjsd fjasldf8alkjlaudsfajsdlkfj alkjdiosfjaldkfj
alksjdfa98sdjflaksdjflkajsdf8jaslekfjal;sdifual;sdjf8asjdflakjsd
fiaj;dslifj"

You could do:

If Len(sTheResponse) > 49
sTheResponse = Left(sTheResponse, 49) & "hello" & Right(sTheResponse,
Len(sTheResponse) - 49)
Else
sTheResponse = Replace(Left(sTheResponse & String(49, " "), 49), " ",
"&nbsp;") & "hello"
End If

Response.Write sTheResponse


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[Ken]

I thought about that, but I thought there must be some
command that justifies where it will print.

 

[Ray at]

No, I don't believe there is. If there were, it'd be something like
Response.write "this text", 1, 50 for column, row, but like, that's really
not the way ASP works.

Just out of curiosity, what's the reason you want text in a specific spot?
You are "screen scraping" are you?

Ray at work

 

[Ken]

No. I am trying to generate file that can be import into
certain program.