okay... I dont know how many of you have played a MUD but it a Text Based MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) there is tons of code for it... I dont want to code one right off I was jsut going to try and play with some different codes to learn how to do it but the reason I tell you this is because your character in a MUD is command driven like you type in "look" and a description of the room is displayed.. what would the code be to obtain a string from the keyboard then test it to see what to pull up?