I have an error handling to detect for a specific message. What I don't understand is why I have to remove the last three characters in order to have a recognition of the text I am looking for:

      Catch loError As Exception
         lcError = loError.Message
         lcError = Mid(lcError, 1, lcError.Length - 3)
         Select Case lcError
            Case "Bad Data"
               lcError = "You didn't encrypt the XML string with a valid key."
         End Select
         Return lcError
      End Try

It seems that a dot, a carriage return and another character are by default returned when an exception occurs. Is there a reason for that?