I know its been a while, but i really need some help.

I want to know how to strip special characters (like Alt + 785, etc) from a string/textbox.

All the help i get tells me to check the ascii values - but they dont have ascii values, in code the only thing i can see is a '?' and when i check the ascii value of it, it is 63, which is the ascii value of a regular question mark.

someone please help me!!!! :)

you might want to attach a copy of what you are talking about so that we can see these phantom characters. It's tough to comment on this since you say the ascii is reporting incorrectly.