Witango-Talk: Help with Strings

[Wolf, Gene]

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OK, I've just run into somethng that I have not seen before, and not seen addressed here. I'm hoping that someone here has come up with something similar.   I'm writing a program to interface with an OLD DOS type system. The interface requires a series of import records of exactly 252 bytes in length. In this record specific data items like, employee number, shift, date, etc., have specific columns into which they must be placed and have specific lengths.   What I'd like to do is create a record of 252 bytes, then "substring" into those locations the data for each employee and then write that record and do the same for the next employee record. Unfortunately substring doesn't work this way and I can't figure out how to make this happen. I suppose I could build this string field by field, and may be reduced to doing that, but I thought there may be a better way.   Anyone have any ideas?   Sincerely, Gene Wolf Business Systems Analyst DRS Optronics, Inc. 2330 Commerce Park Drive Palm Bay, Florida 32905 Phone: 321-309-0685 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body