"Wendy Elizabeth" wrote:

> I am basically new to using Visual Basic.NET.
>
> I wrote a Visual Basic.NET web application that will allow users to enter
> data. Once this data is entered, I put the data into one big long string to
> pass the information to a mainframe system. This is way the mainframe system
> expects the data. (For example: Address1 should be in position 192 for a
> length of 30, city needs to be in position 7886 for a length for 25.)
>
> Thus for each field, I need to put the data into a continous long stream
> to be parsed out by the mainframe. Is there any tool that I can use that will
> say I am currently at position #7886 for a length of 25? In otherwords,
> if I copy and paste the data to "notepad" file is there a way for a tool to
> show me where my cursor is at?
>