> I had a similar need this week. So thanks for asking Vincent. My data > was in the format of > 0000004239,0000110392,"Vincent, James S.",1-614-249-5547
Correct, numbers would not have to be in quotes. Basically only sequences that might have a comma. An interesting route is to .. fblock 1 | a: between /"/ /"/ | joincont not leading /"/ | join which separates the strings from the other fields, but it's not easy to keep things straight. But if you can afford an unused character like X'01' you could do this: xlate (fs " f2 f4 f6 f8 f10 f12 f14 f16) , 01 Rob --- Rob van der Heij z/VM Development, CMS Pipelines
