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>What's the best way to do the parsing? In VFP it's a cinch. In .Net I don't know enough about classs structure to pick a best method. I'd rather get a pointer or two here and start running rather han crawling and letting the customer wait extra longer for my studies. <g>
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I don't know if the following will be helpful but just in case:

This is how I read a text file into a string:

// Read the template file using StreamReader object.
FileInfo oFileInfo = new FileInfo(path);
StreamReader oReader = oFileInfo.OpenText();
string stringInTemplate = oReader.ReadToEnd();
// It is important to close the StreamReader object.
oReader.Close();

Once it is a string there are many ways to manipulate it in C#.NET.

HTH.