BL> my worst fears about Pascal... it's a do-it-yourself language.

 DB> But you only need to do it once. Once saved compiled in a unit
 DB> (or DLL in Delphi?)

  Delphi uses units too... even nicer than BP.

 DB> you call it whenever you need it. It will be there just like
 DB> any inbuilt VB thingo.

  In my case, everything I write has a bug in it  but you are
right. I've written all my old favourite VB string handlers but I
still don't trust them. With good reason. They're full of bugs.

 DB> You've been spoon fed too long.. :)

  I came from C! At a great rate of knots, I might add. My greatest
success in C was to write something that ate the Borland compiler. I
haven't done that in Pascal (so far).

 BL> But that code was a great help. There were a couple of nice
 BL> little tricks in there and it's good to see Pascal used
 BL> properly, 

 DB> Have a look at my message to Ian Smith for a big cockroach in
 DB> the code in the first message. 

  ROFL!! I'm used to big cockroaches in my code. I had to move to VB
in self-defence.

Regards,
Bob
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