super - one line - got to love it. thanks Peter
k

>>I have a long text that i want to shorten to another text file mytext.txt TO mytext2.txt (short version)
>>i would like to remove everything before the symbol >>__________ below in mytext2
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>>so in brief:
>>mytext.txt is complete, mytext2.txt shows everything AFTER the '>>__________' symbol that appears in mytext.txt
>>
>>any suggestions on the shortest possible route to do this would be appreciated.
>>thanks
>>k
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>try:
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>strtofile( strextr(filetostr([mytext.txt ]), [>>__________] ,[],1,3),[mytext2.txt])
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