Fixed Width Parsing Conundrum

[Potts Jeff]

I have data that needs to fit into a 40 mono spaced character width. (The width of the original Kindle Fire) Here is the format;

1234567890123456789012345678901234567890

1   lb     Ground beef

1   Jar    Catelli Garden Select Tomato & Basil Pasta Sauce

½   tsp    Seasoning Salt

I am using the following cleaner to turn tabs into fixed width non breaking spaces which works. 

The problem I am having is that the text in excess of 40 characters breaks in the Kindle Viewer and the results are as follows;

1234567890123456789012345678901234567890

1   lb     Ground beef

1   Jar    Catelli Garden Select Tomato

 & Basil Pasta Sauce

½   tsp    Seasoning Salt

I cannot figure how to fold the text within the cleaner and add 11 fixed width non breaking spaces so that the output looks like the following;

1234567890123456789012345678901234567890

1   lb     Ground beef

1   Jar    Catelli Garden Select Tomato

           & Basil Pasta Sauce

½   tsp    Seasoning Salt

Your help or direction is greatly appreciated

Jeff

[Mark Munz]

Put this at the end of your cleaner (after col 1 & 2) are converted. 

• Take column three
• Wrap it at 28 characters
• Add "^@@@@@@@@@@" to the beginning of the lines, skipping the first. We do this with the Modify Results option. 
• Re-wrap the text

at the end of the cleaner: 

• we take the ^@ and convert it to a return + @
• finish by converting any @ to \u2007.

Tip: You can simplify your cleaner by having only one conversion action from @ to \u2007 at the end of your cleaner.

This would then convert ALL @ to the non-breaking space.

Hope that helps. 🙂

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[Potts Jeff]

Thanks for that help! I learned a lot from looking at how you accomplished this, and yes I should refactor the  @ to \u2007 portion to make it tighter.