A VFP application that has been running for years takes data passed by a third party app that reads data over a serial port from a currency counter.
I'm doing a new app in .NET that will do the same thing.

The third party app sends the amount of the currency denomination followed by a Carriage Return.
There is a single 0 followed by a Carriage Return if the denomination amount is zero.
When I read the string into word pad, I see the amounts and the Carriage Returns.
When I read it into a textbox, I only see the amounts.
The length of the string in the textbox is the length without the Carriage Returns.
I need the Carriage Returns in order to parse the string into correct amounts.

What to do?