[Stackoverflow] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Progress 4GL display to a variable

[FusRoDa]

I'm working with a codebase that has multiple display statements. So that all of the outputs line up, the various column numbers are also typed multiple times.

I would like to just use a variable for the column instead of searching for the line and then updating the column width. Something like:

def var i as int init 10.
disp "FOO" to i
"BAR" to i + 5.

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