"Pieter Nagel" <pieter at nagel.co.za> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.21.0103161339210.2809-100000 at bast.jhb.equinox.co.za... [snip] > Of course you can. The technique is to modify the String class itself It's not a class. It's a non-class type, and does not support modification. Alex