David,

Just as an FYI, you can combine the two statements inside your foreach loop like this:

Items.SetValue(Item.Text.Trim(), i++);

HTH,
Chad

>There seems to be something funny with using that copyto() and arraylist:
>
>anyway this was my work around, works ok, not sure if its the best way to do it.
>
>string[] Items = new string[ListBox2.Items.Count];
>int i=0;
>foreach (ListItem Item in ListBox2.Items)
>{
>Items.SetValue(Item.Text.Trim(), i);
>i+=1;
>}