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Aug 03.2007

I am trying to make each word in an array have the same number of characters….so I add blank spaces to the end of the words so that each word in a ‘column’ has the same length.

Here is the code i have put together so far:

[code]
function padWord(aArray,tc){
var sFMTD=””;

for (c=0; c < tc; c++){
var mLen=0;
for (r=0; r < 11; r++){
if (aArray[r][c].length > mLen) mLen=aArray[r][c].length;
}
for (r=0; r < 11; r++){
if (aArray[r][c].length < mLen){
for (a=0; a < (mLen-aArray[r][c].length); a++){
aArray[r][c]+=” “;
}
}
}
}

for (r=0; r < 11; r++){
if (sFMTD!=””) sFMTD+=”n”;
for (c=0; c < tc; c++){
sFMTD+=aArray[r][c]+” “;
}
}
return sFMTD;
}
[/code]

But, its not working right…any ideas?

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@steveaAug 03.2007 — A quick glance says that it probably works, my guess is that the problem comes in when you're putting it into HTML. HTML doesn't like whitespace, and will ignore them after a certain amount (2 or 3 maybe). Perhaps you'd be better off substituting [b]&nbsp;[/b] where you add " ".
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@jeffcravenerauthorAug 03.2007 — Hmm...i tried replacing the " " with &nbsp;

Getting a syntax error...so i tried it with quotes around, and then it just adds the &nbsp; not a space
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@jeffcravenerauthorAug 03.2007 — Some background...it puts the sFMTD variable's value into a variable defined on the HTML page, then sends that over in the post action to a mail tempalte form that uses plain text.
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@Arty_EffemAug 03.2007 — Some background...it puts the sFMTD variable's value into a variable defined on the HTML page, then sends that over in the post action to a mail tempalte form that uses plain text.[/QUOTE]Then you could try adding non-breaking spaces as text, not HTML:

element+="xA0";
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@jeffcravenerauthorAug 03.2007 — Thanks...that did create the spaces, but still running into the same problem as just using the " "....it doesn't seem to be creating enough...as if my frunction's for loop is off somehow.
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