Leica Biosystems LPC Software installation - Manual (Page 149)

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Any automatic text flag may be followed by a "sub-string specification"
which can be used to extract a portion of the automatically generated text.
Following the flag with this sequence specifies the sub-string: (#, #).
The first number following the open parenthesis character specifies the
character position of the first character to be included. The first character in
the string is character number 1. The second number following the comma
specifies the number of characters to include in the text. For example, say
that the %X(1, 5) flag with the date 03/26/2001 is included in the message.
The sub-string that will be included in the message is 03/26 because it will
begin with the first character and include 5 characters.
Flag Help Form
If you click the Flag Help button in the Text Field Editor form, the form shown
below will appear, which provides help on the various flags that can be in-
serted into the message.
Fig. 81
The left pane of the form shows a list of the flags that are available to you
for insertion into your text field. When you select a flag, the right pane
shows a preview sample of the text that will be generated by the flag. Some
flags have optional parameters that you can specify as well. In the above
3. User Interface