Label script cutting off last character?

[ShannonPankow]

Ok, so I don't know that much about vbScripts, but I am using this one to make the text on the label concatenate to fields into the label, wrap the text at a certain number of characters and insert a new line.

Function FindLabel ( [NAME], [PARKING_SP] )
FindLabel = " [NAME]  & [PARKING_SP] "

Dim finalLabel, strInput, curChar, PWS, CWS
Dim c, numChars, senLimit, numSpaces, spaceIter, CWSLen
strInput =  [NAME]  & vbNewLine &  [PARKING_SP]  '* label field names NAME & PARKING_SP
intInput = [PARKING_SP]
senLimit = 15 '*sentence limit is 15

  finalLabel = ""  
  strLabel = ""
  intLabel = ""

  numChars = Len(strInput)
 
'Determine number of spaces in string
    numSpaces = 0
    c = 0
  Do Until (c = numChars)
      c = c + 1
      curChar = Mid(strInput, c, 1)
      If (curChar = " ") Then
         numSpaces = numSpaces + 1
      End If
    Loop

   c=0
   Do Until (spaceIter = numSpaces + 1)
        Do Until (curChar = " ") Or ((c + 1) > numChars)
          c = c + 1
          curChar = Mid(strInput, c, 1)
          CWS = CWS + curChar
        Loop
        CWSLen = Len(CWS)
        If (CWSLen > senLimit) Then
             PWS = Left(CWS, (CWSLen - 1))
             PWSLen = Len(PWS)
             If (Len(PWS) > senLimit) Then
                 Do Until (Right(PWS, 1) = " ")
                     PWS = Left(PWS, PWSLen)
                     PWSLen = PWSLen - 1
                     c = c - 1
                 Loop
             End If
             curChar = "dummy"
             PWS = Trim(PWS)
             If (finalLabel <> "") Then
                finalLabel = finalLabel & vbNewLine & PWS
             Else
                finalLabel = PWS
             End If
             CWS = ""
             spaceIter = spaceIter - 1
        Else
           If ((c + 1) <= numChars) Then
                PWS = Left(CWS, (CWSLen - 1))
                curChar = "dummy"
           End If
           spaceIter = spaceIter + 1
        End If
   Loop

If (finalLabel <> "") Then
    finalLabel = finalLabel & vbNewLine & CWS
  Else
     finalLabel = cws
End If

FindLabel = finalLabel

End Function

The problem is that it is cutting off the final character in the last line that is pulling in the number of parking spaces, but only on
*some* of the labels, not all of them....help!

[MarkBoucher]

I've had this same problem and am very interested in the solution.

[MarkBoucher]

Any help on this out there?

[Anonymous User]

I took a stab at this...Very tricky! (or maybe I am just over thinking?) I was able to generate the labels properly using Python and printing out the labels using a search cursor, but I was unable to get this to work as a label expression. It is also very clunky. Hopefully someone who is more experienced with writing label expressions can get this to work.

def FindLabel(field,length):
    wlist = field.split(" ")
    linelist = []
    scratch = []
    chars = ""
    for w in wlist:
        if len(chars) <= length:
            chars += " ".join(["",w])
            chars = chars.lstrip()
            
            if len(chars) > length:
                linelist.append(" ".join(i for i in chars.split(" ")[:-1]))
                chars = chars.split(" ")[-1]

                if len(chars) < length:
                    pass
                elif len(chars) == length:
                    linelist.append(chars)
                else:
                    linelist.append(chars)
            else:
                scratch.append(chars)
    try:
        if scratch[-1] not in linelist:
            linelist.append(scratch[-1])
        if wlist[-1] not in linelist:
            linelist.append(wlist[-1])
        if linelist[-2].split(" ")[-1] == linelist[-1]:
            del linelist[-1]
    except:
        pass
  
    label = "\n".join(str(i) for i in linelist)
    return label


if __name__ == '__main__':  # Cut this out of label expression

    import arcpy

    dbf = r'C:\Testing\deed.dbf'
    with arcpy.da.SearchCursor(dbf,['DEEDHOLDER']) as rows:
        for row in rows:
            name = row[0]                
            label = FindLabel(name,15)
            print label
            if label.replace("\n"," ") == name:
                print '\ntrue\n'
            else:
                print '\nfalse\n'

I was able to successfully get this to wrap texts when printing out to the interactive python window, but getting this to work as a label expression is a whole new ball game. I tested many different lengths (10, 15, 20, 25, 30) and it properly wrapped the text. I also did a test to make sure that all the values in the field match up after generating the labels and they all returned true.

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