Hey Raymond,

Could you email me a sample of the XML file sturcture with dummy values. I'll try to see what I can get.

Aloha,

James
>thank you but i might have figured out the problem what trying to do is extract the info from the response wich is in xml format convert to str so i can update the database with the response i get back.if you know a better way of handling this it would be please let me know thanks for your help
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>lcxml=FILETOSTR("c:/md.xml")
>lcStr = STREXTRACT(lcXml, "<Customerid>", "</Customerid>")
>lcStr2= STREXTRACT(lcxml, "<Status>","</status>")
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