Visual Basic Code of the Week (COTW)
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Issue #34
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Requirements for this Issue

The source code in this issue is designed for Visual Basic 4.0 and above.

In this Issue

This issue will discuss a useful string padding routine. It has several parameters which make it very flexible. It is geared more towards the beginner level of Visual Basic programming.

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String Handling Module

Description

This module introduces a string handling function to pad a string.

COTWPad Subroutine

Adds blanks to the right side of string if necessary. The routine will handle null strings appropriately. This routine can be useful when you are trying to output a text file that has evenly spaced columns or you are creating multi-column output for the screen or print using a fixed-pitch font. Basically it is most useful for doing simple reporting. Most recently we have used it to generate a email message that had columns of data.

Declaration

COTWPad(sData as Variant, iLen as Integer, sChar as String) as String

Parameters