Brian Karfunkel <[email protected]>:
According to -help extended_fcn- you can't use display directives with
"in" and "as":
display in smcl "{err}hello"
loc g: display in smcl "{err}hello"
di strlen(`"`:display in smcl "{err}hello"'"')
which is unfortunate for your particular example. So you are stuck
removing all {smcl} before computing length--and during that process
counting spaces if you want them.
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Brian Karfunkel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there a way to get the length of a string while ignoring any SMCL
> tags in the string?
>
> In other words, I have "{err}hello", and I want the length of "hello",
> since the "{err}" tag doesn't affect the length as outputted.
>
> I've tried the following:
>
> strlen(`"`: display "{err}hello"'"')
>
> and variations thereof, but nothing seems to work. If there is a
> solution, it would also be helpful to know how it would treat "{col
> 30}hello" and "{space 20}hello", for example, in terms of whether the
> columns/spaces that are inserted are counted in the length (i.e.
> whether it is literally the number of characters of the line on the
> screen as displayed or if it is just the length of the string you'd
> get if you, say, -regexr-ed out all the tags in braces).
>
> Thanks for the help,
>
> Brian Karfunkel
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