friends, I am now trying to parse this string in this way... x= could be anything including special character string = xx:ABC,xx,x,x,x,"x,x,x",x,x,x,"x,x",x string0=ABC string2="x,x,x" string3="x,x" string1=xx:string0,tt,x,x,x,string2,x,x,x,string3,x final string is string1Thread Next