ww pointed out some basic troubleshooting steps, but at a glance after you used my code, I'll elaborate on his thorough post (thanks ww): you made changes that won't work. First, you have a semi-colon after the while() statement, and to further, you have to open a file and create a file handle. Changing the assignment of the attempted file handle to a statement to evaluate them is beyond the scope of my response.

You can't simply put a filename in a statement like that and expect it to work.

Again, this is why I coded my response this way; I wanted to give you a working example, but leave it open so you *had* to do some of your own homework.

Feel free to ask questions after you learn how to open a file for 'reading'.

-stevieb

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