Yes it does rely on that assumption. I did have lines in my code that removed leading whitespace, but I didn't think about trailing whitespace. As for records between the # and '====', they will nto have any '====', so I guess I am safe, but I agree, my solution is not general. Thanks for the warning!!

mndoci

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