I'm having a textbox in my form. I'm using tc table with field description.

description
-----------
AAA
BBB
CCC
DDD

if i externally insert the field as E.E.E
and then if i add EEE in my textbox it should made a info thro msgbox like 'description already exists'

how to do this..
give some coding..

i've done stripping special character function like this
<code>Public Function strip(ByVal des As String)
Dim strorigFileName As String
Dim intCounter As Integer
Dim arrSpecialChar() As String = {".", ",", "<", ">", ":", "?", """", "/", "{", "[", "}", "]", "`", "~", "!", "@", "#", "$", "%", "^", "&", "*", "(", ")", "_", "-", "+", "=", "|", "", "\"}
strorigFileName = des
intCounter = 0
Do Until intCounter = 29
des = Replace(strorigFileName, arrSpecialChar(intCounter), "")
intCounter = intCounter + 1
strorigFileName = des
Loop
Return strorigFileName

End Function
</code>

please do help

Thanks in advance