Is there more than one date in one file? Do you want to import only certain lines from a file depending on the date part of the line?

If that's what you want, then there a a couple of ways I can think of, but the most straightforward way might be to read the file with the low level fgets() function and parse the characters 7 through 14 to get the date and just discard any lines that don't fall between the dates you want.

Alan

>Hi All,
>i have a like 28_07_2003.TXT , 29_07_2003.TXT files and its creating for date and its containing strings like below
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>11:41,07.29.03,1N,3A,5N,7A,9A,2N,4N,6N,8N,0N,1D,3D,5D,7D,9D,2D,4C,6D,8C,0C
>11:41,07.29.03,1N,3A,5N,7A,9A,2N,4N,6N,8N,0N,1D,3D,5D,7D,9D,2D,4C,6D,8C,0C
>11:42,07.29.03,1N,3A,5N,7A,9A,2N,4N,6N,8N,0N,1D,3D,5D,7D,9D,2D,4C,6D,8C,0C
>11:43,07.29.03,1N,3A,5N,7A,9A,2N,4N,6N,8N,0N,1D,3D,5D,7D,9D,2D,4C,6D,8C,0C
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>now .. i wantto create a cursor with field Cstring c(75) want to import the lines between two dates range as user choice . how can i do ?
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>TIA