PrintW - print a long string, breaking it at the last space or hyphen before col. 79

[TDarcos]

@TDarcos - Works well so far, but why doesn't it work with Locate? Why doesn't this work?

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$Console:Only



Locate 2, 3

'Print

L$ = "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

PrintW L$

'Locate 4, 3

Print

PrintW "Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this."

'Locate 6, 3

Print

PrintW "But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow, this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

'Locate 8, 3

Print

Print "- Abraham Lincoln"



End

Don't panic, Kernelpanic; I looked at your example, and without even having to test it, I instantly knew exactly why the locate commands you gave after the first one didn't work. But, I wanted to check. I reran my original program, only putting a locate 6,4 before the third paragraph "But in a larger sense..." and did what was expected, indented the first line 4 characters, on the 6th screen line. All the other lines start at column 1. So locate works fine. My original hypothesis as to why you couldn't get the other locate statements to work in the above program is apparently the correct one:

The locate statements would work better if they weren't commented out.