Well I have been doing some testing and it seems that I can everythign works fine in vb. The reason I asked this is because if you save a cgi script in notepad and reopen it the cgi script is corrupt to a perl engine. It wont even read it. But it seems in visual basic saving the text in something like the above example works fine. Havent tested it a perl engine can read it tho but I see no reason why it cant right now. No visible corruption..