yeah, I've kinda put it off long enough :) thanks

Hmmm...off the top of my head try openning the ServiceAccounts class and removing the WebService base class as well as the attributes and the public and abstract modifiers from the methods the get an interface and using it that way?

I'd use regex but they always leaves me scratching my head somewhat puzzled :) Thanks for the suggestions, off to try it in the code now

hehe...thanks, would have had to be something that simple... I'm removing common words such as 'at' 'the' 'this' 'is' 'of' etc...

I'm trying to compare words entered in a textbox with a selection of stop-words, removing any stopwords that are found. Here's a snippet. string text = this.textBox1.Text; if(RemoveMe(s)) { int startIndex = text.IndexOf(s); int endIndex = s.Length-1; text = text.Remove(startIndex, startIndex+endIndex); } Problem is, every now and then startIndex get a value of -1... Kinda stumped here, what am I doing wrong?