Dave,
Yeah, I agree ... it kinda sucks. But, you learn to live with it. <g> I suspect that maybe Java didn't have that capability? They say that C# is more like Java than C++, but never knowing either one of them, I can't say for sure.
~~Bonnie
>Bonnie,
>
>So C# doesn't implement < , >, < =, >= operators for strings? That was pretty standard in C++ so it's odd that C# doesn't have them.
>
>>Of course it makes sense ... when you're sorting things alphabetically. And you use the string.Compare(s1, s2) method. See my reply to Kevin.