VB.NET defining space characters in a string?

[Benny_Lava]

Hi, I am creating a stream : stream = file.create(filePAth) 'And it pops up a message here saying : "Illegal characters in path" I have searched high and wide for illegal character, in normal view and hex, and there is none. The only thing I can think of is the space character, I have searched google and found some things that can be done to prevent this usign @ in front of the string, but it doesn't work in VB. Any ideas? Thanks!

[yogesh_kumar_agarwal]

hi first try it by using the static path like c:\ if it works fine then go for filePath variable and in that if want to remove only tralling and starting spaces then use Trim(filePath) else you could go for a loop like this dim a as string for i=0 to len(filePath)-1 if mid(filePath,i,1)<>" " then a=a+mid(filePath,i,1) endif next now a will the string without spaces Yogesh Agarwal

[Benny_Lava]

Yes I know that, but I cannot change the string, this is an absolute path. The path cannot be changed... I just need to tell the compiler, or that function or someone... that there is a space in the PATH string. So it can handle the space... The path cannot be changed! any other ideas. Thanks

[Eslam Afifi]

It's not about space characters. Your path has invalid characters. This code is a prove that space character is not the problem.

IO.File.Create("c:\ .txt")

Use this code to get where the invalid characters are.

filePAth.IndexOfAny(System.IO.Path.GetInvalidPathChars())

Eslam Afifi