I've seen this in the past, too. In many of my handlers, I have to set the itemDelimiter explicitly to tab, whereas it is *supposed* to be local to the handler, and be reset on exit. I've seen this in both 5 & 7, although it just bit in a routine that worked in 5 while I'm using 7. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462