Many of the instruments we write VB interface's for send ASCII data in a string such as "-0.0001+0.0032-0.0012-0.0021". This little routine will nicely chop up the string into fixed length chunks, and put them into an array for further processing. It should work in any version of VB.

Code

Public Sub Fixed_Len(Work As String, Length As Integer, Arr() As String)

Dim iElement As Integer
Dim iCounter As Integer
Dim iPointer As Integer

iElement = 1

iCounter = 1

For iPointer = 1 To UBound(Arr())

Arr(iElement) = Mid(Work, iCounter, Length)

iCounter = iCounter + Length

iElement = iElement + 1

Next iPointer

End Sub