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that worked out good for me..thank you... The code:<pre> XElement duplicate = XElement.Load("wnrom2.xml"); StringBuilder build = new StringBuilder(); Dictionary<string, string> dict = new Dictionary<string, string>(); foreach (XElement dup in duplicate.Descendants("SYNSET")) {       build.Append(dup.ToString()); } dict.Add("a", build.ToString()); if (dict.ContainsValue(synsets.Descendants("SYNSET").Last().ToString()) == false) {          synsets.Save("wnrom.xml");          synsets.Save("wnrom2.xml"); } </pre>

hi ipstefan, my sugession is read contents of file sequentially and check whether the character u r reading is ", it it is then take all next characters untill next " apprears so u can get each character between "". From these chars u can make a string by using + operator and later it can be pasted where u want. Or as u mentioned myString.find() method, i hope find method is custom method not in framework. Instead, u can use following method of class String. String myString = "abcd"; String cutString = myString.Substring(0,3); the value of cutString will be 'abc' . Try to use this method. Ok.. Hope it will help u.

This shouldn't be a problem. You'll just need to add the three JAR files to the classpath, and proceed as I explained previously. If you don't know what's the main method, check the MANIFEST.MF file inside the main JAR, where you'll find it mentioned. If not, you'll find it somewhere in the batch file, but you may have to dig deeper. (You could post the batch file if you want, and I'll try to help you with it.) My LinkedIn Profile