On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 09:49:02AM -0500, Bobby Wrenn wrote: > I have a text file in the following format: > > name1 > [name2] > address1 > [address2] > city, state [zip] > How is the next record done? Is there a space between them so you could read each line then we you hit a blank line you'll know city, state [zip] was the preceding line? Michael