thats because vb doesnt do the #$ notation.. I believe its something like vbCrLf .. but I dont do vb, its pointless.

and I believe VB still has a pos function where you can test if its > 1 or not.. check the helpfile

i think putting that in actually worked! lol! niiiiiice!

but now im stuff in the data retreival part.. i need to look into that before i ask more questions.... If you care to... you could look into what i did wrong on that part... I think that did it tho... it made it through the procedure** ermm the subroutine.

thanks a million... now for the next part.. im sure you can do it LizR

Debugging is always the answer
Follow the data you get back, look at its values, look at what your code does.

I dont have vb6 to put it in. (or rather its around on a cd somewhere, but I am not loading it)

ok well, i guess ill take the remaining bit of it to the VB forum. If you are interested in helping me figure out how to parse the proper characters, I think the only problem is a matter of syntax at this point LizR.


The line: buffer = Winsock2.GetData(TmpData, vbString)

seems to be the only part the is keeping this code from parsing the text. As always, thank you and any help is certainly appreciated.

I still think simple debugging will highlight the problem quickly.

Believe me, I have tried... Many times LizR. Either I don't know how to do debugging effectively, or I am just plain stupid, or a combinatioin of both (the latter is most likely).

This tends to be frustrating... I am so close to getting this.

Put a break point on the first line in your data retrieval code
Add a watch to the value of the data returned eg buffer
Step through the code.

Most likely the issue is the value of buffer, if not, make a dummy app and play around with string functions till you find the one you want and how to use it

It doesnt matter if I add a breakpoint to it or not when the syntax isnt right.

I know you are trying to help, but the error is that of syntax. Ill just try to get help in the VB section. Thanks for your efforts.

But you've been running it so, there shouldnt be syntax errors