>>>>Add an optional parameter that will allow you to determine the character or characters that break up each line.
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>>>Think about using the Vbscript.RegExp object to build a Matches collection rather than ALINES().
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>>I am not familiar with Vbscript.RegExp. Can you elaborate? Thanx.
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>Vbscript.RegExp is a regular expression parser that can create collections of matches of regular expressions. It's vastly more involved than a single message could summarize - go to the MS WSH site referenced in my signature block and follow the links for the WSH Tutorial - there are several detailed articles on theregular expression parser there.

Ok, I'll check that out. Thanks for the info.