Hi Andy, Thanks so much for taking the time to help with this. Your code is working much better than mine but some strange stuff is going on with my text file:
I made a new file and typed out the first chunk manually (so it would have the correct newline characters at the end of each line) and then I pasted the next 2 chunks in from my original file like so: =============================================== Wednesday, December 6, 2006 4:58:05 AM =============================================== Job File: 12-06_05;57;45 AM_test.txt -- Name: Jay Young Dept: PSD =============================================== Wednesday, December 6, 2006 4:58:05 AM =============================================== Job File: 12-06_05;57;45 AM_test.txt -- Name: Jay Young Dept: PSD =============================================== Wednesday, December 6, 2006 4:58:05 AM =============================================== Job File: 12-06_05;57;45 AM_test.txt -- Name: Jay Young Dept: PSD I then opened this new file up in pico and found this: =============================================== Wednesday, December 6, 2006 4:58:05 AM =============================================== Job File: 12-06_05;57;45 AM_test.txt -- Name: Jay Young Dept: PSD ===============================================^MWednesday, December 6, 2006 4:58:05 AM^M===============================================^MJob File: 12-06_05;57;45 AM_test.txt^M--^MName: Jay Young^MDept: PSD^M^M=== ============================================^MWednesday, December 6, 2006 4:58:05 AM^M===============================================^MJob File: 12-06_05;57;45 AM_test.txt^M--^MName: Jay Young^MDept: PSD So it looks like my file is getting messed up somewhere! This file is getting created on another mac by an Applescript using the "return" character (ASCII number 13). Seems it's messing things up for me though. Is there a way to change those ^M characters to \n and then loop thru each line? These files can get huge thou gh so I don't know of a good way about this. Thanks again Andy for your incredible help! djgoku, thanks for your replies too! They're much appreciated! Jay _______________________________________________ kc mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kc
