Hi gang,

I'm embarrassed to have to solicit your help, but I am having trouble 
with INPUT# trying to read sets of variable length strings from a data 
file. First item in the file is a count of the number of strings that 
follow - it inputs fine - all confirmed by reading the same file with 
HexEdit 1.0.7.  Then I set up a for next loop to read that many strings 
into my string array (globally dimensioned: DIM 30 gHnames$ (200). For 
the first INPUT# 1,gHnames$(I), I see (in the debugger) the first string, 
fine.  For the second time through the loop, I see the third string - I'm 
not getting the even numbered strings... Where could they be going, what 
am I doing wrong here?

The strings are in the file delimited with carriage returns and each 
string is preceeded by a hex 22 (double quote).

The loop is a simple:

FOR I = 0 to gNumNames
INPUT #1, gHnames(I)
NEXT I 

Something is going right over my head, and I need some help...

TIA,

        -=  Bob  (-: