You guys are too white and nerdy! ;-) (reference to Wierd Al Yankovich tune) Bob On Jan 11, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Jim Ault wrote: > One bit of shorter code would be deleting the function and using the two lines: > > set the lineDelimiter to char 1 of (pLineDel & cr) > set the lineDelimiter to char 1 of (pItemDel & tab) > > > Jim Ault > Las Vegas