still wont work, i have tried all the types of $read that i can remember (with and without quotes, wildcards, and both S and s. If i cannot find an easy way to read the liine, i will have to convert the zipcodes.txt file to an ini file, and i have no way of doing that easily without $read, other than retypeing the whole file, and that is a task I do not want to undertake because there are over 42,000 lines in the file. Any and all help would be appreciated.
