>You have the right idea, but the keyword int is equal to System.Int32 and you convert it using Conver.ToInt16 and the max value for Int16 is 32767. Use Conver.ToInt32 instead:

Thanks, both.

Converting to an integer happens to work in this scenario, because both character strings are numeric.

However, what if either string contained letters. How would they be compared in C#?

TIA, Kevin