hey i just thought maybe i could use substring() and then test if that matches... if it does, it passes the test (actually i'm going to write it to another file)... but then i'd have to do several substring()s since there are a few locations i must test and depending on which location has what, i write the line to different files... would this work? and more importantly would this be efficient, as the file is a particularly large one (more than 100 MB)...

sorry for posting again so quickly but it struck my mind just after i'd posted...