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ASP VBSCRIPT: for a declared string, inserting a line break every N characters
I'm using ASP VB. I want to insert a VbCr or a VbLf into a
declared string
every N characters. FWIW, I want to do this because of an apparent
limitation in MSXML2, which I am using to "scrape" data from webpages that I
control: I'm getting spurious exclamation points (!) where line lengths are
too long. Manually inserting line breaks (which do not render in HTML) seems
to solve the problem. Can someone tell me how to do this?
Put another way, I need to flesh out the following pseudocode:
Dim myString, myCursorPosition, myIncrement
myString ="The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog."
myCurrentCursorPosition=0
myIncrement=5 ' I want a line break for every myIncrement
While [there are still remaining characters to walk through in the string
' navigate cursor by myIncrement through myString
...
' insert a VbLf at myCurrentCursorPosition
...
myCurrentCursorPosition = myCurrentCursorPosition + myIncrement
[loop]
Thanks for any help on the syntax here.
-KF
every N characters. FWIW, I want to do this because of an apparent
limitation in MSXML2, which I am using to "scrape" data from webpages that I
control: I'm getting spurious exclamation points (!) where line lengths are
too long. Manually inserting line breaks (which do not render in HTML) seems
to solve the problem. Can someone tell me how to do this?
Put another way, I need to flesh out the following pseudocode:
Dim myString, myCursorPosition, myIncrement
myString ="The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog."
myCurrentCursorPosition=0
myIncrement=5 ' I want a line break for every myIncrement
While [there are still remaining characters to walk through in the string
' navigate cursor by myIncrement through myString
...
' insert a VbLf at myCurrentCursorPosition
...
myCurrentCursorPosition = myCurrentCursorPosition + myIncrement
[loop]
Thanks for any help on the syntax here.
-KF
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