On 5/12/05, Irvine, Wayne D <Wayne.D.Irvine at bhpbilliton.com> wrote: > I have a tab delimited ascii/excel file formated like ... The CSV module can help you: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-csv.html HTH, -- Swaroop C H Blog: http://www.swaroopch.info Book: http://www.byteofpython.info