Hi,

Does anyone have an idea for removing a line based on the first
character(s)? For example if I have "rem This is a comment in system files"
Then that line would be removed from the string containing it.

Thanks,
Jeff

I guess you read this string from a file.

Read the file line-by-line instead and skip every line which starts with REM

 myString=""
 open"myfile" for input as #1
 while not eof(1)
   line input#1,x
   if ucase(left(x,4))="REM " then
      'skip
   else
      'append
      myString=myString & vbCrLf & x
   endif
 wend
 close#1

HTH

Michaela