Tony, If you have a field "data" with your text, and a fld "accum", then in a button somewhere:
on mouseUp put fld "data" into temp set the itemdelimiter to quote repeat with y = 1 to the number of lines of temp put item 1 to 2 of line y of temp & ":" & item 3 to 4 of line y of temp & ":" & item 5 to 6 of line y of temp into line y of accum end repeat replace quote with empty in accum put accum into fld "accum" end mouseUp You get your data parsed with colons. I tried to parse it with Colins, but that feature is not yet supported. Craig _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode