>Jim
>
>I wanted 'abc ' to return a length of 4 and 'abc' to return a length of 3.
>If they typed in a leading space, I also wanted that to be included in the lenth.
>

Allan,

I poked around a bit yesterday and as far as I can see you can get the length of the inputmask, or the length of the value without trailing spaces, but I could see any way to get the length to only include the trailing spaces that the user actually type. The only approach I can think of would be to build a textbox class that handled the issue for you. Probably a little code in the Keypress that updates a custom property used to count the charactyers typed by the user. That would give something like;

lnStringLen = Thisform.Text1.ValueLength

Where ValueLength is the custom property.