Jens,

I just created a little test com object that dumps the content of strings passed to it. Here's what I tried:

break on

$String = CreateObject("ComString.String")

$String.String = "kixtart"+CHR(0)+"org"

exit 1

When i trace the string, its shows up as:

Len = 10
String = kixtartorg

The CHR(0) got stripped-off, trying other things but if anyone has any further things to try, let us know ...