<BR>What would be the dotnet equivalent of this?<BR><BR>LEFT(request.form("domin"&i), LEN(request.form("domin"&i))-2)save them into string variables, and the access the string's length property. like so:<BR><BR> Dim sString As String = request.form("domin"&i)<BR> sString.Length<BR><BR>And for the LEFT Property, I think they still have it for compatibility purposes. Check the Microsoft.VisualBasic.Compatibily Namespace (or something close to that) in the documentation for details.