Re: Flowing Text Into Multiple Columns

2004-06-28 Thread Parker Morse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, Jun 27, 2004, at 12:31 US/Eastern, David Blomstrom wrote: Suppose I want to display an entire field, but not in one long column. Instead, I want to flow it evenly into several columns. [snip] I haven't yet learned of a way to do this with

Flowing Text Into Multiple Columns

2004-06-27 Thread David Blomstrom
Suppose I want to display an entire field, but not in one long column. Instead, I want to flow it evenly into several columns. For example, consider the following column: Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut I might want to split it into two columns: Alabama

RE: Flowing Text Into Multiple Columns

2004-06-27 Thread David Rodman
]=Suppose I want to display an entire field, but not in ]=one long column. Instead, I want to flow it evenly ]=into several columns. ]= You're looking for the wrong type of screwdriver to drive this particular nail. MySQL is not a text processor. This could be done fairly simply with PHP.