Add something straight after the getline call to remove a trailing \r? Like this: if (\*data\_string.rbegin() == '\\r') data\_string.erase(data\_string.length()-1); Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p

I'm not clear on your question. Are you trying to create an ODBC driver for your app ? If so, a good place to start is here: http://www.iodbc.org/[^] ...cmk Save the whales - collect the whole set