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Magician Joined: 23 Nov 2004 Posts: 364

I've been trying to come up with a way to preserve dividers in aliases that display some tracked information.
so an alias, gxpstats

Gxp Rate
Outstanding : 199| 5.73
Very High : 2278 | 65.57
High : 650 | 18.71
Good : 3 | 0.09
Average : 306 | 8.81
Low : 38 | 1.09
Very Low : |
Total : 3474

i'm using this to compare different setups to see what gives the highest percent of top end gxp, so i'm wondering how i could insert a set number of spaces, the closest setup i was thinking of was using %eval(5-%len(@rate.outstanding)) to give how many spaces i would need, but i just don't know how to incorporate this information. my script looks like:

Magician Joined: 23 Nov 2004 Posts: 364

i don't know if i made it clear, the problem i'm trying to solve with this script is to have the | line up in a column which i need to have a dynamic way to set the spaces using the length of the rate values

Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 7:16 pm

try using the length set feature of %format(), it will require more indepth format calls, but it will get what you want done.

#SHOW %format("&10.0s &6.0f &s &6.2f", "Good", @rate.good, "|", %eval(@rate.good/@ratetotals*100))

Magician Joined: 23 Nov 2004 Posts: 364

#show %format( "&s &7s &1.0f &s &3.2f", "Good", ":", @rate.good, "|", %eval( @rate.good/%format( 2, @ratetotals)*100))

i still am running into the problem though of having a dynamic way to change the value of the 4th &s, there isn't a way to do the math that i could find, i tried to do &{%eval(5-%len(@rate.good))}s just to fool with it, used "", <>, ect. any ideas or could you be more explicity in how to do it shalimar? i want the | to line up if that value is 1, 12, 123, 1234 and so on.

Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 10:04 pm

If you want to ensure that one parameter lines up, first ensure that every parameter before it lines up, specifically your first parameter has no length, whereas mine did.

#show %format( "&9s &1s &5.0f &1s &6.2f", "Good", ":", @rate.good, "|", %eval( @rate.good/%format( 2, @ratetotals)*100))

You want to force lengths on every parameter to ensure they line up, the length must be at least as long as the longest variable that goes into it. If you are unsure of how large it could get, it is safer to guess too much then not enough.