Thursday, 15 November 2007

VB, VBScript Method to cut long words in a text,

'function to add spaces between long string
Function FormatString(LongString, maxWordLen)
' Split the string at the space characters.
Dim words
words = Split(LongString, " ")

Dim iWordsCount,iCharCount, newString, stringSegment

'for each words
For iWordsCount = 0 To UBound(words)

'for lenght of the string
if len(words(iWordsCount))>maxWordLen then
for iCharCount = 1 to len(words(iWordsCount)) step maxWordLen
'get string segment
stringSegment=mid(words(iWordsCount),iCharCount,maxWordLen)
if len(newString) > 0 then
'add a space char for long string
newString = newstring & " " & replace(stringSegment," ","")
else
newString=replace(stringSegment," ","")
end if
next
Else
if len(newString) > 0 then
'add a space char between words
newString = newString & " " & replace(words(iWordsCount)," ","")
else
newString=replace(words(iWordsCount)," ","")
end if
End if
Next
FormatString = newString
End Function

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