' the goal here is to have a multi-line textbox and add "items" to it by putting each item on a newline, then for each of the "items" we perform an action ' example: ' #chan1 ' #chan2 ' code Dim channels As String = txtEggChans.Text Dim chans As String For Each chans In channels.Split(vbCrLf) MsgBox("channel add " + chans) Next ' results ' channel add #chan1 ' channel add ' #chan2 ' not sure if there is a better way of doing this or not but i am stumped at this point as in theory this code "should" work ?