I'm trying to read in strings of hex values, 12 bytes in total (ex. 01 09 0C 96 38 F0 07 00 00 00 00 5C). I want to be able to take these strings, ignore the first three bytes (they're always the same), and compare them so that they can be used in IF statements (ie IF "hex string" comes in, send out value). The deal is that I have very little Visual Basic experience. If someone could give me a few pointers it would be greatly appreciated.