And, again, questions... lets say i have some properties that i want to concatenate. they are both int's (or not, i'm sure i will want to do this with strings too at some point) that i would like to cast to strings. propA = 1 propB = 2 lets say that i want to be able to do something like propC = string(propA) + string(propB) which should result in propC = "12" I've *read* about string.join() but am unable to make it work... Any help would be great!!! thanks again! j