On Jul 31, 9:31 pm, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote: > Ah, 'tr' to the rescue. Perfect solution, Andy - thanks! I was going to suggest you nibble the bullet, and move to a _marginally_ higher level language: awk. You can set RS and still keep it simple. But in *nix there always many roads ... Cheers, Nick.