>Hi Cetin
> Thanks for the help. I will keep it in mind. I really want to read it
>into an array. But if all else fails I understand your way and may have to do it that way. Hope not. Thanks again!
>
>John Marrone
>jmarrone@brisnet.com

John,
I said array wouldn't work (at least at one pass) based on your givings :
1500 fields per line and 500K file. I guessed it was more than 43 lines (65000/1500 roughly).
It'd take a few seconds to do that way (not coding wise) IMHO.
PS: Another approach :
You could stuff every 250th occurence of comma with chr(13)+chr(10) to get a 250 fields delimited file (threaten first 6 header lines as separate).
Cetin