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Is there a way to get the width of a string, not length in characters by width in pixels or some other measurement.

Asked by bcarlis in PL / SQL, Oracle 9.x

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Is there a way to get the width of a string, not length in characters by width in pixels or some other measurement.

I'm building a text summary of an order and want to calculate how many tabs to include. I then email it to the customer.
Right now I'm using case statements to get the length but some strings with length 13 have the same width as a length of 16.
I'm trying to stay to TEXT emails and not go to HTML for reasons of different browser setting, etc, etc..

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l_1tabs VARCHAR2(10):=chr(9);
        l_2tabs VARCHAR2(10):=chr(9)||chr(9);
        l_3tabs VARCHAR2(10):=chr(9)||chr(9)||chr(9);
        l_4tabs VARCHAR2(10):=chr(9)||chr(9)||chr(9)||chr(9);
 
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FOR c1 in (SELECT NVL(to_char(to_date(O.CNTNR_RTN_DT,'DD-MON-YY'),
             'MM-DD-YYYY'),	 'No Return') ReturnDate,
	 l_1tabs||QNTY_ORDERED||l_2tabs||NVL(QNTY_SHIPPED,0)||l_2tabs||
	 F_GET_CNTNRS_LIST(O.ID,'N')||
         (case when length(F_GET_CNTNRS_LIST(O.ID,'N'))<6 OR 
       length(F_GET_CNTNRS_LIST(O.ID,'N')) is null then l_3tabs 
  when length(F_GET_CNTNRS_LIST(O.ID,'N'))<14 then l_2tabs else l_1tabs end)||
      F_GET_CNTNRS_LIST(O.ID,'Y')||(case when length(F_GET_CNTNRS_LIST(O.ID,'Y'))<6 OR length(F_GET_CNTNRS_LIST(O.ID,'Y')) is null then l_3tabs when length(F_GET_CNTNRS_LIST(O.ID,'Y'))<14 then l_2tabs else l_1tabs end)||
	 PROD.PROD_NAME
	  ProdLine, 
	 X.RETURNED_FLG, NVL(QNTY_ORDERED,0) - NVL(QNTY_SHIPPED,0) DIFF
	   from "LS_PRODUCTS" PROD, LS_ORDER_ITEM O, LS_ITEM_CONTAINER_XREF X 
	   WHERE PROD.ID1 = O.PROD_ID AND O.ID = X.ITEM_ID(+)
				       AND O.ORDER_ID = pOrderNbr
				       order by QNTY_ORDERED ) LOOP
 
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