>Correction: ...a 7 character bar code read and a RETURN character.
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>Thanks, Randy
Several ideas have been suggested already. Depending on what you want to do with the data (copy directly to table, process one line at a time, etc.), and also on the amount of data, one approach or the other can be preferable: LLFF, FileToStr() and alines(), APPEND FROM, and perhaps a few more.
Hilmar.
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