I have some files with this structure, below is in hex. 00 6D 00 61 00 64 00 61 00 6D 00 65 00 3F 00 27 00 20 00 0A It is ascii characters each preceded by a blank, I would like some way to remove all the odd characters, ie all the 00. so in the above case it will end up.............. 6D 61 64 61 6D 65 3F 27 20 0A (madame?"sp""lf") Lindsay