by Jerry Barnett (2 Submissions)
Category: Files/File Controls/Input/Output
Compatability: Visual Basic 3.0
Difficulty: Intermediate
Date Added: Wed 3rd February 2021
Rating: 
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Have you ever needed to read a fixed length text file in Visual Basic? I have written quite a lot of applications where I will receive a fixed length text file from the mainframe.
Tired of using the Left$, Right$ and Mid$ functions to parse each line for the individual elements of the line? Then read on.
Oh, and thanks to Rockford Lhotka's, book on Visual Basic 6 Business Objects for giving me this idea.
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