Ola, Thanks for the pointer. I'm wondering about parsing the tokens themselves, though, that is the date, time and numbers in the following: TRADE,X_._.,20040901,00:00:02,1105.25,,1 Thanks, Joel On Jul 12, 2005, at 11:44 AM, Ola Andersson A (AL/EAB) wrote: > string:tokens may be a good start. -- http://wagerlabs.com/uptick