thanks dhaim! I am going to give the code example a shot

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OK....I am familiar on the regular expressions thing. I am looking for a library that already has done this. What does Google do? Does it use a database? shwaguy

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thanks for the reply. I still do not know how do what I need to do, but I think I might be on the right path now. I never had to fire events before, I guess I am about to learn. shwa guy

The original post was rather vague. Not the ones that followed. "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon

no problem!

ah! Well, I'm glad you were able to understand what was wanted, because I sure didn't! :laugh: "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 "There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance." Ali ibn Abi Talib "Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri?"

public class MyClass {   private readonly Dictionary properties = new Dictionary();   public string this[string name]   {     get { return properties[name]; }     set     {       if (properties.ContainsKey(name))         properties[name] = value;       else         properties.Add(name, value);     }   }   public void GetADObjectInfo(string dn)   {     DirectoryEntry entry = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://" + dn);     foreach (string strAttrName in entry.Properties.PropertyNames)     {       this[strAttrName] = entry.Properties[strAttrName][0] as string;     }   } } Then access it like: string myString = MyClass["PropertyName"]; But you can't get it strongly typed (MyClass.PropertyName) without doing it one at a time I think.

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Thanks guys, I sincerely appreciate the criticism and analysis. Problem solved. thanks again,:) stuntman

OK, So the message I seem to be getting is that, anything can be done from anywhere as long as it works. So if it seems write to have MyClass.Function0 return a value and dump that value to a file it is technically OK. Aside from logical organization is there anything style wise I should know? For instance it would not seem right to have MyClass.Function both return a value and print those same values; I seems right to have a seperate class.function take the return values from MyClass.Function and do the writing. That would allow me to have multiple funcitons access my file writing function and eliminate repeat code. Is that right? The shwa guy