Indeed, just have gotten rusty with C++ I guess. It has been so long since I have had to think about the intracacies of doing strings/char input in C++, guess I looked right past it. Now that I have been thinking about it, I guess I did usually define the char array to store strings (when I went that route and didn't use String.h) statically and then used pointers to point at it (at which case I would have a problem without sanity checking ).

Thanks for the enlightenment.

/nebulus