Hi Keith, its trivial to do that in REBOL. You have a number of different choices. The most elegant way to do it would be to use parse. Take a look at the documentation under parse. Let me know if you have questions. Elan At 04:18 PM 6/13/00 +1000, you wrote: >hi all >i am new to scripting (rebol and python) and was wondering if it was >capable of doing to the following and if so..how? >the following is an example of what i need to strip and turn into a tab >delimited file.. >the entries are from a music database that is updated weekly..it is in >lotus notes so i export from there and it dumps this file out with the new >titles for the coming week (here the 19th June).... >i only need to get the rows with the double astericks at the start (i put >those in for this post, they are not there in the normal file) and then >strip the words at the start and then put a tab in between them so i can >bring it into excel for the sales team to look at .... i would need a first >row to describe each column also maybe something like >Title tab Artist tab Cat no tab APN etc etc >the tracklisting is a little more complicated as it has multiple tracks >within the row..they are seperated by commas.... >i think that it won't be that hard but i had no success in perl so i >thought i might try rebol or python... > >thanks in advance >keith > >FORM: Popular Recording >CMTYPESWITCH: Popular >RELOCORIGINAL: 55864A2603AC94ACCA2568F200224388 >CMCOUNTRY_ORIGIN: >CMGENRE_CODE: >**CPTITLE: INFINITE POSSIBILITIES >**CPARTIST: AMEL LARRIEUX >CPOARTISTS: >**CMCATNUMBER: 4948792 >**CMAPN: 9399700067507 >**CMARIAPRICECODE: C9921 >**CMARIAMEDIACODE: 21 >**CMARIADISTRIBUTORCODE: SMA >CMARIAPACKAGECODE: >**DMRELEASE: 19/06/2000 >cMDateFormat: 19/06/2000 12:00:00 AM >DMDELETE: >cMDeleteStatus: No >**CMLISTPTRACKS: GET UP,I N I,SWEET MISERY,SEARCHIN' FOR MY SOUL,EVEN >IF,INFINITE POSSIBILITES,SHINE,DOWN,WEATHER,MAKE ME WHOLE,GET UP (THREAD >HAD FUN MAIN MI,GET UP (MV MIG MIX (RADIO)) >CMLISTPARTISTS: ,,,,,,,,,,, >RELOCMEDIA: F73C80183A01A8D7CA2568F2002A5517 >**CURMPRICE: 15.91 >**CMTYPE: Compact Disc >CMRECORDCOMPANY: SONY MUSIC >CMPACKAGE: >CMARIADISTRIBUTORHOUSECODE: >cDistributorHouse: >CMLOCALE: Y >$UpdatedBy: CN=PPT/OU=AEROS/O=JUKEBOX >$Revisions: 02/06/2000 05:42:22 PM,02/06/2000 05:42:22 PM > > > ;- Elan [ : - ) ]