I just finished reading your e-mail and I appreciate all of your help. I am still learning REBOL (obviously) and help like this is much appreciated. I always like to know better ways to do things. That is how you learn. Thanks. -Ryan >A simpler version of your code would look like this: > >out: make string! 100000 >insert out {<HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY bgcolor="#FF9999">} >words: make block! 0 > >foreach fields next read/lines %messages.txt [ > clear words > foreach word parse fields ":" [append words word] > firstword: pick words 1 >]