>And once I DID get a file delimited with "|". Nasty to handle.
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I see it all the time, actually. DHL sends out their rate and route files using the bar delimiter, and it's a PITA the first time you encounter it. The solution we settled on was to use low-level file I/O to read the file a line at a time, and then parse the line into a vector using AT() to isolate token values. Once written, the solution works regardless of what the delimiting character is.