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Hi,

I've been looking on CPAN for a way to determine the position of a
character on a line, but I can't find it. My goal is to print
address-labels with 3 labels horizontally. I haven't found a module
providing functions like this.

Thanks for hints and/or directions,

Huub

Huub <"v.niekerk at hccnet.nl"> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:
> Hi,
>
> I've been looking on CPAN for a way to determine the position of a
> character on a line, but I can't find it.

What does it mean to "determine the character position"? Query
where a certain character will go? Make sure a character goes
into a certain position? Position as in line/column? In pixels?
Characters? Printer points? Inches? Something else entirely?

> My goal is to print
> address-labels with 3 labels horizontally.

Labels with three labels? Should that be "lines"? If so, why do you
need to determine character positions (in whatever sense) for that?

> I haven't found a module
> providing functions like this.

As far as I am concerned, you have entirely failed to make clear what
functions you are looking for.

Anno

Huub wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been looking on CPAN for a way to determine the position of a
> character on a line, but I can't find it. My goal is to print
> address-labels with 3 labels horizontally. I haven't found a module
> providing functions like this.
>
> Thanks for hints and/or directions,
>
> Huub

Hi Hubb,

Perl has three functions index(), rindex(), and substr().
I guess you can use any of these.

you can take the line into a variable aas a string and process.

Hope this helps.

Thaufeeq.

Huub <> wrote:

> I've been looking on CPAN for a way to determine the position of a
> character on a line, but I can't find it.


perldoc -f index


> My goal is to print
> address-labels with 3 labels horizontally.


perldoc -f printf


--
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Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas

>
> Hi Hubb,
>
> Perl has three functions index(), rindex(), and substr().
> I guess you can use any of these.
>
> you can take the line into a variable aas a string and process.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Thaufeeq.
>

Thank you.

wrote:
> Huub <"v.niekerk at hccnet.nl"> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:
>> Hi,
>
>> I've been looking on CPAN for a way to determine the position of a
>> character on a line, but I can't find it.

> What does it mean to "determine the character position"? Query
> where a certain character will go? Make sure a character goes
> into a certain position? Position as in line/column? In pixels?
> Characters? Printer points? Inches? Something else entirely?

>> My goal is to print
>> address-labels with 3 labels horizontally.

> Labels with three labels? Should that be "lines"? If so, why do you
> need to determine character positions (in whatever sense) for that?

I think the OP means print labels onto paper which comes with rows of
three sticky labels.

>> I haven't found a module
>> providing functions like this.

It might well be worth looking at using formats for this sort of job,
since that also allows good vertical control. See:

perldoc perlform

Axel