Hello, I will start off by saying that I'm a self taught hobbyist programmer, and new to Autoit. I apologize pretense if my technical terminology and usage is incorrect. A lot of reading and fiddling around on Google while I learn Autoit. The help file has been an outstanding resource. Anyways, I thought I should state that before asking my next question. I have some functions that are meant to convert and store Autoit expressions in binary form in the Windows registry. When the function is ne