Greetings, your Excellence, Like everyone else I've been through Kafkaesque conversations with front-line tech support, and information/sales, organizations. While there may be no excuse for a company driving away potential customers, or convincing current customers to never buy their products again, when it comes to the reality of the working lives of the people who are employed in front-line support: it's most often a shyte job with low-pay, quota demands, and no potential for future advancement. imho, why it's like that is simple: economic$, and ... greed. As a jaded realist, I spend very little time thinking about that. bill Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview

That's what condoms were invented for! The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.

ExcellentOrg wrote: today's post-feminazi world Great phrase ! I'd love to re-use it, but this will not be on the best effect in Germany. ~RaGE(); I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb

@ExcellentOrg despite the tone both answers are correct. And you may have long ago solved this problem .... especially since so much time has passed. Me, I would probably go with the TCP/IP solution for no better reason than one is essentially a server the other a client and as long as you which starts when that should be easy. Named pipes seem to be very cool and work really well in a 1:1 application. Doug I am a Traveler of both Time and Space

Will it help if I publish entire parsing code? ... Certainly there is little bit of refactoring that can reduce the lines which I've postponed until it works correctly? I had omitted code above the for loop because (a) it is working fine (as I coded it). (b) I did not want to post too big code here

Pablo Aliskevicius wrote: Maybe the whitespace is not a space (ASCII 32), but a tab (ASCII 15)? Pablo. No, it always has been spaces. But I do have code with few String.Replace(...) to weed out all unwanted chars. Not happening nowadays but earlier, separating char between dd and mm used be any one of /, \ or - In any case, at moderator's suggestion, I've reposted this query at C# forum. Thank you for your help