From: Stephen None <xman2001@...>
Date: 2010-03-23T03:28:00+09:00
Subject: splitting text string

I am working on a way to process the status of products and I want to
use a bar code reader to make things easier.  I already have the scanner
which simply reads the bar code into the keyboard port and appends a
carriage return.  I was thinking of printing bar codes that would
contain information which is useless externally but useful to my app.
For instance...

Bar code:  123456789
Which would break down into:

order (first three) => 123
product (next five) => 45678
status (last digit) => 9

I would then use a nested form to feed the information in the database.

My question is... I get the string from the barcode reader as one long
string of numbers with no delimiters so how do I break that string down?
I can make sure the position of the values is the same in the barcode
when we print them but split and chunk both want a delimiter.  Thanks,

stephen
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