>Yes, I tried Alines and it works great unless you have an extremely large textfile. Mine was around a gig.

I had such a thing a few years ago, though it never grew over two megs. I resorted to using fRead() to get a single line, and used aLines() to split the line into fields. Then each field corresponded to an array member. I had to do some string munging to insert an empty string (a pair of quote marks) between two delimiters so two consecutive delimiters wouldn't cause aLines() to skip a field. This way was extremely fast - about 60 times faster than whatever was originally used for the task.