Hi! Here is a challenging question!

Let me first tell you my scenario how am i implementing a solution to a problem.

I am reading a log file and displaying it on the JTextArea. Log file is cp037 character coded. I was reading each file as a byte stream or byte array from the log file & displaying it. Anyways, i managed to display the text properly in JTextArea by cp037 character coding. 

Now, User may select a set of characters in the JTextArea. All i want is the position of first character of the user's selected text, from a nearest special character '+'(its character code in cp037 is 4E), which is prior to the selected text. This character may occur at several places in the JTextArea.

In simple sentence, i want the first character location(of user selected text) from nearset '+' which should be occuring prior to the user's selected text.

PS: cp037 is a type of character encoding scheme which is created by IBM & used for IBM Mainframes.

Please fell free to ask me if the question is not clear...:->