RE: MI Mapbasic - Reading if text object has carriage returns

[Jacques Paris]

That one was easy and I was already for it. Numlin returns the number of lines (carriage returns +1) in the a string Jacques Paris     [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Paris PC Consult (mainly MapInfo app.)      www.total.net/~rparis/gisproducts.htm declare function numlin(byval a as string) as smallint function numlin(byval a as string) as smallint dim pos, pos1, k as smallint numlin=1 k=1 pos=1 boucle: pos1=instr(pos,a,chr$(10)) if pos1=0 then exit function end if k=k+1 numlin=k pos=pos1+1 goto boucle end function   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dany Bouchard Sent: June 29, 2000 10:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI Mapbasic - Reading if text object has carriage returns This has to be simple ! I am just trying to figure out if a text object textstring (returned by ObjectInfo(obj, OBJ_INFO_TEXTSTRING) has carriage returns. Is there an easy way aside from looping through all characters and checking for carriage returns by converting each character using ASC() ?   Thanks in advance !   Salutations.   Dany Bouchard DBx Geomatics 38 de l'Orbite Hull, Québec Canada J9A 3C7 Téléphone/Telephone: 819.743.3870 Télécopieur/Fax: 819.775.3264 Courrier électronique/Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page Web/Web site: http://www.dbxgeomatics.com/home.asp Vitrine technologique SVG / SVG Technology Preview: http://www.dbxgeomatics.com/svg.asp