Thanks, that worked just fine. Now how would i get, say, the next 10 characters. What i'm trying to do is take a line of data and break it into fields based on length, ie there is no delimiting characters between the fields?? Thanks. Mike. >>Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED], >>Try this: >>>> read/part %test.txt 5 ;<= 5 is the "size" argument to /part >>== "This " >>(the content of the file is "This is a test file^/") >>Best regards >>Thomas Jensen
