>>Hi Fred,Thanks for your reply.
>>
>>Tried the single quote but getting the same error !!
>>
>>Gerard
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>>I am trying to use a multiple OR statement in c# but am getting
>>>>..cannot be applied to operands of type bool and type string
>>>>
>>>>I am trying to (in VFP code)
>>>>if Mynum2 = "C" or MyNum2 = "E" .....
>>>>
>>>>My c~ code is:
>>>>if ( (MyNum2 == "C") || (MyNum2 == "E") )
>>>>
>>>>and MyNum2 is declared as string.
>>>>
>>>>Any help appreciated.
>>>>
>>>>Gerard
>>>>
>>>
>>>Try using single quotation mark (') instead of double (").
>
>Haven't worked much with C# (yet), and I haven't worked with C in quite awhile. But If those are strings, I think you'll need a function to compare the values (in C strcmp(), if I remember). In C# (from the help) (Spanish culture)
>

> // Uses GetCompareInfo to create the CompareInfo that uses the "es-ES" culture with traditional sort.
>      CompareInfo myCompTrad = CompareInfo.GetCompareInfo( 0x040A );
>      if (myCompTrad.Compare(MyNum2, "C")==1 || myCompTrad.Compare(MyNum2, "E")==1)
>// strings match
>

Update:
It looks like John is right, comparing two stings isn't hard in C#, your code should work as you have it.