>Hi,
>
>I'm sure this is something simple but I am too close to see the problem.
>
>I have a string with this value (it is being read from a text file):
>
>string inputLine = "1,73358,"20130111","MIA","POS","BW 791","106 8750 3231 - 7 BAGS LESS""
>
>I want to pull out the 73358 and the 20130111 into two variables, so I did this:
>
>string manifestNumber = inputLine.Substring(inputLine.IndexOf(",") + 1, inputLine.IndexOf(",", 2) - (inputLine.IndexOf(",") + 1));
>string manifestDate = inputLine.Substring(inputLine.IndexOf("\"") + 1, inputLine.IndexOf("\"", 2) - (inputLine.IndexOf("\"") + 1));
>
>manifestNumber works properly to give me 73358.
>
>I get an error on manifestDate that "length cannot be less than zero".
>
>When I check inputLine.IndexOf("\"") I get 8
>and inputLine.IndexOf("\"", 2) also returns 8!
>
>Why should that be?

Something wrong here. This wouldn't resolve to a string:
string inputLine = "1,73358,"20130111","MIA","POS","BW 791","106 8750 3231 - 7 BAGS LESS""