Thanks Luc for the useful info. I'm going to look into your suggestion about the IEnumerator. Such a steep learning curve only being new to c#:). Haz

haz13 wrote: (for Card1 upto Card100) As someone else said, instead of having 100 fields, have a collection which contains them ( and if they are named card1-card100, an array makes sense, you just put the number in the indexer ). Then you can iterate over them with foreach to do your test. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )

haz13 wrote: I have tried both char and string separators but can't think of a way grab the data cleanly without including a " or , . I either end up with "apple" "orange" "pear" or "apple orange pear" I used similar code to split it. Heres some code, maybe it can help u. Input text same as u : "apple","orange","pear" etc assume the string named "str" string[] strArray = str.split(','); for (int i=0;i Training makes perfect....

ColourFreqCollection.IndexOf(new Frequency(1,2)); That's all you can do, you don't have a reference to the object you're looking for. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog

Register to the Form.Closing event and use the passed CancelEventArgs object to cancel the closing process if needed. "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook www.troschuetz.de

Thank you all :) Haz

Thanks for your speedy response. Your solution works really well in my program. :) Haz

Forget that I had missed off the static keyword for a method in one of the static classes. Only just realised that all static classes should have static members. Thanks again for your help :) Haz

*grin* No worries, glad we got there. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog