At 3:11 PM -0700 7/23/01, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>What if we had a function which takes some tab- and column-delimited data
>and a set of tabstops, and returns the truncated text?  Maybe something
>like:
>
>   put TruncateColumns( <data>, <tabstops) into fld 1
>
>This would reduce Raney's work significantly over making a whole new object
>type, and would take care of the most critical bottleneck in doing database
>work in MC.
>
>Whaddya' think?

Whatever gets the job done soonest sounds great to me.

gc


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