>Need to track down a ghost control character in some strings I'm passing around. Anyone know of a good editor? Would like one that displays different formats and highlights the characters as I move through them. Thanks! You get no stars in this forum, but you will have my gratitude. Almost like having stars...

As Sergey already pointed out...
http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.htm

..I use that in conjuction with this one..
http://www.hhdsoftware.com/Products/home/hex-editor-free.html

The last time I had to hex edit some files, sometimes the first one was better sometimes the 2nd one- really depends on what yer looking at I guess.