evoltistas, i have a quick, paying job for someone with the right skills. this job involves writing a script to clean some very specific data in large text files (upwards of 300 megs for some of these files). if anyone is up for the task please contact me offlist, asap. thanks, .jeff Jeff Howden - Web Application Specialist Résumé - http://jeffhowden.com/about/resume/ Code Library - http://evolt.jeffhowden.com/jeff/code/