Use the shift operator >> to move the individual values to the right place, then add them. If you're not familiar with it, read this page: http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Language/BitWiserOpsInCSCH001.asp[^] Christian I have several lifelong friends that are New Yorkers but I have always gravitated toward the weirdo's. - Richard Stringer

you can use System.Environment.NewLine to add the new string.

I've got an article on that at http://www.devx.com/interop/Article/19845[^]. It's a new edition of an article[^] I wrote for CodeProject alost two years ago, which was a rewrite of an article I wrote about a year before that. Sure, there are already bridge products that have been out for a couple years, but these articles will tell you how it's done (using JNI and, optionally, COM - though not required if you P/Invoke native functions from the JNI library you'd have to write). The DevX article I linked first goes into greater depth about calling Java methods from the JNI DLL. Microsoft MVP, Visual C# My Articles

Thanks very much. - Bruce :) BRCKCC

BrcKcc wrote: How do I convert a string defined with the @ symbol to a string without the @ symbol? What do you mean? They are all the same thing: a string object. string a = "String\\Literal"; string b = @"String\Literal"; a==b [EDIT - sorry, I had the slashes the wrong way round before] Cheers, Andy