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I need some help. I work with a special tool-set that is written in COBOL, and we have a client in need of that tool-set that has a Unix (Solaris 2.8) system. The Unix box does not have a COBOL compiler that we can use. We have the ability to combile our modules using MFCOBOL on our...

I am looking for ideas using VBA to populate fields in a Word docuement from values in an Excel worksheet cells. I know I can do this with the Mail/Merge function of Word, however, that forces me to have an Excel spreadsheet that is wider than I want to present to the user, from a visual...

Tom, The data will be preserved as it was presented to the program - no removal of redundant spaces. Thanks.

Thanks for all of the suggestions to this point. Regarding the data attributes, there can be pretty much anything in the data. There could be double spaces, there could be 500 bytes of data, followed by 100 spaces, followed by more data - it's pretty much wide open. The data we are analyzing...

I have a need to find the length of a text string - i.e. how long is the string before the start of the trailing spaces. The code I've written does the job, but unfortunately the program, when executed, spends 40% of it's time with this section of code, and I want to make it perform more...

I need to parse a text string that will have seven words within the string, each separated by one or more spaces. I want to parse each word into it's own string (i.e. String1, String2,,,,, String7). Does anyone know of a routine that will accomplish this no matter what the length of each...

Thanks - that did the trick

I have an Integer field that I need to display as a fixed position of digits. For example, if the integer value is 135, when I display it in a Message Box, as and example, it shows as 135 (I use the command CStr(fieldname) to do the display) - however what I want to display is a 4 position...