how do you mean the outputs not right? if you change new.txt to new.bin it should be the same, have you put Imports System.IO at the top of your code. I can help you if you give me a better description of the problem?:)

Thanks for the directions I did this Imports system imports system.io then in the form load Try ' Create an instance of StreamReader to read from a file. Dim sr As StreamReader = New StreamReader("MyFile.txt") Dim line1 As String ' Read and display the lines from the file until the end ' of the file is reached. Do line1 = sr.ReadLine() ComboBox3.Items.Add(line1) Loop Until line1 Is Nothing ComboBox3.Items.Add(sr) sr.Close() Catch Er As Exception ' Let the user know what went wrong. Console.WriteLine("The file could not be read:") Console.WriteLine(Er.Message) End Try 1. Out of clutter, find simplicity. 2. From discord, find harmony. 3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein three rules of work

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What about using "mod" to get the remainder then working with that? mod = Divides two numbers and returns only the remainder. For Example: 40 mod 1 = 0 40.25 mod 1 = .25 So you could write something like this to get the decimal(remainder) part of any number entered: dim d as single = input mod 1 if d = .25 then 'do something end if

vertig0730 wrote: But, the plot has thickened I bet there was some internal thievery going on, or something that is making your boss very suspicious of everyone. Possibly also a bankruptcy or buyout is in the works. Keep us posted! Marc MyXaml Advanced Unit Testing YAPO

Jim, That works it does give me a .00 but I am working on types to try to remove it. I was trying to make it much harder than that. Thank you James Kennelly

good news I am only intstalling it on 1 machine so i like the odds. James Kennelly

1)I thought about SQL but when this project started it was only supposed to do one thing, It got bigger quick. It now spans 5 databases mostly in the 40 field range. this last one has to use data from one of the existing databases and add to it. I have tried splitting the old information and the new information but had no luck. 2)Thank you James Kennelly