[comp.databases] # of lines in a memo field

AR.HFN@forsythe.stanford.edu (Hooshyar Naraghi) (12/19/89)

dBASE users:

Does anybody know how one would go about counting the number of
lines in a memo field in Foxbase+/Mac (version 2.0)?

Is there a utility can can be run from within a fox application to
accomplish the above as a work around?

I am writing the code to print memo fields from a data base, but I
don't know where to insert the page eject command since the # of
lines per memo field is a variable.

Thanks,
Hooshie F. Naraghi
(415) 723 - 3790
AR.HFN@forsythe.stanford.edu

awd@dbase.UUCP (Alastair Dallas) (01/03/90)

In article <6570@lindy.Stanford.EDU>, AR.HFN@forsythe.stanford.edu (Hooshyar Naraghi) writes:
> Does anybody know how one would go about counting the number of
> lines in a memo field in Foxbase+/Mac (version 2.0)?
> ...
> Hooshie F. Naraghi

This doesn't help you, but dBASE IV can count the number of lines in a 
memo field using the MLINE function.  The problem is that not only is
it data-dependent, the SET MEMOWIDTH TO value must be considered, as well.
If dBASE IV were available for the Mac, at least you'd have an expensive
solution.  As it is, you're stuck writing some sort of an XCMD.  But
even that approach will probably require that SET MEMOWIDTH be invariable.

/alastair/