I have just moved to VB from VFP as well. Hopefully not forever. <g> This may seem a crazy idea but why don't you define a class in VFP, create a method that accepts the string you want to convert and the chr's to replace and return the result. Then compile it as a DLL. I think you would have to define the class as Ole Public.

Then you would have to register the foxpro DLL and you could call it from your VB app?