I'd like to point out that this fragment is from my Re: Help. Attribution of it and reference to its parent would have saved a lot of speculation and justifiable wrong turns in this thread. I did point out that the &no_match and &duped_id subs were up for grabs and could be used for error reporting. I'd expect duplicate ids in the database to be a fatal error, and no_match() to warn of bad input.

In my reply, the emphasis was on error handling, which had pretty much been ignored in AM's original code. Perhaps I should have just suggested one of the CSV modules.

++Abigail-II for clear analysis.

After Compline,
Zaxo