Extra space in text file line

[spaceman_spif]

This one is not critical, just aesthetical. My program writes lots of lines of info into a text file. One section of my code seems to include an extra empty space at the beginning of the line. The text is correct, but it just looks awkward being one space off from all the other lines of text.

I will include a sample of the section of code writing to the text file. I didn't include all of my code, so parts of the sample I'm including will show errors, but you can get the gist of what I'm trying to do.

In the line that displays "Start time of switch setting", the text is moved one spot over. Why?

[spaceman_spif]

I'm going to try to attach a sample text file. If you look at the first line of text anywhere after it states "Communication reestablished at (date) (time)", you will see that that line is moved one space to the right.

[NeilR]

Hi Spaceman

I've had a look at the code and I think I can see what's happening.
If you right-click on "Format Into String" and select Edit Format String you'll notice that there is a space between each of the '%s' tokens -> "%s %s %s ..."
The format command inserts these spaces as literal text into your string. If you take them out leaving
"%s%s%s..." your problems should be solved.

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Cheers
Neil

[NeilR]

Just another thought.
Where you are only really combining the strings together, it is sometimes easier to use the Concatenate Strings vi. Less terminals to worry about. 😉

Cheers
Neil

[spaceman_spif]

Yup, that seemed to do the trick! I never even tinkered with "edit format string" of my "format into string" tools. I just wired my strings into them and let 'er rip.

I ended up looking into the format of my other "format into string" tools in my program and they were set up the same - a space between each %s. But only that one "format into string" tool between string lines 5 and 6 did it actually place a space in the resulting text. Weird. Nowhere else did that occur.

Thanks for the help!

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Probably not worth enough to put 4 kids through college though.