>>I have a fairly complete registry class that creates wrappers for all datatypes. It actually stores everything as strings, but will accept/return the datatype you want. I can whip up some docs and post it to teh files section, if people want...
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>Hey Tim,
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>Actually I (and i'm sure some others around here) could use something like that for retrieving and writing application specific registry entries...
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>Unfortunately what i'm trying to read right now is written by another program, and it's not available in Character :(
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>Still looking for ideas...
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>-- Dave

Use the ASC() function for each character of the string. If my memory serves me well, there are four bytes in a numeric entry. First byte being lowest (1-255) second byte being next, etc. Should be able to calculate value from that.