title: Fixed length strings or structures in C#
body: <p>I need to create a structure or series of strings that are fixed lenght for a project I am working on. Currently it is written in COBOL and is a communication application. It sends a fixed length record via the web and recieves a fixed length record back. I would like to write it as a structure for simplicity, but so far the best thing I have found is a method that uses string.padright to put the string terminator in the correct place.</p>
  
  <p>I could write a class that encapsulates this and returns a fixed length string, but I'm hoping to find a simple way to fill a structure and use it as a fixed length record.</p>
  
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  <p>The fixed length record is used as a parameter in a URL, so its http:\somewebsite.com\parseme?record="firstname     lastname     address      city        state      zip". I'm pretty sure I won't have to worry about ascii to unicode conversions since it's in a url. It's a little larger than that and more information is passed than address, about 30 or 35 fields.</p>