I almost feel too embarassed to ask this, but does anyone know a better way to convert a string to a byte array? I don't like using loops to process the string char by char. It's easy to convert a byte array to a string, you just use StrConv. There must be a VB function I'm missing or an API call. I mean a string is just a block of bytes in memory anyways. Anybody know a good way to do this?