I should change my username to "Lots to Learn". Anyway, I've got a pipe delimited text file and it looks like this: 

1005238613|thisuser@aol.com|John Q. Public|1678 Evergreen Terrance.|NE
+W ORLEANS |
1005239353|someuser@yahoo.com|James Q. Smith|1313 Monster Rd.|brook Pa
+rk|OH|
1005241949|otheruser@hotmail.com|Jane Q. Anon|123 Main St.|Naperville|
+IL|

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What I need to do is extract the email addresses and write to another file to do a mail merge. I haven't been successful splitting and listing the second element. (first is timestamp - obviously).
Help!

Also, is there an easy way to mail to multiple recipients with hand-rolled code as opposed to a pm?

Thanks for the help oh brotherly monks.
peppiv

Edit Masem - CODE tags add, and personal data changed to protect the innocent

In reply to Extract field from pipe delimited flat file by peppiv

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