I don't understand your issue. Add the 2 lines, then calculate the length,
then do what you're doing in Send() and get the difference. The code you
show should work,

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Ken Slovak
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"Nagaraj" wrote in message
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Thank you Ken for your reply.

My requirement is when I open an existing mail item and click Forward
button, it will automatically add 2 blank lines. So when I calculate the
difference between those two values it is even counting blank characters
also.

I declared one variable originalMessage and assigned it a value in the
mail_Forward event as follows


originalMessage = forwardMail.HTMLBody;

In the Item_Send event I am calculating legth as follows

length = mailItem.HTMLBody.Trim()Length - originalMessage.Trim().Length



where length is coming as 1537

I want to validate new message length to be 0 since I didn't enter any new
characters. How to do this in c#

Thanks
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Nagaraj Tadipatri