Thank you for your help...I apparantly did not proofread my post good enough. One of the main issues I'm having is when the parser encounters the output of "<Left>, <Right>, and <Del>." Is there some way to mirror the action of these keys before writing to a new output file?
In other words, if I have some text that looks like:
"requested to remove  LD  for 4.99 .. did tell her if she makes calls that asre   L D will be billed  before 02/25/02 <Right><Right><Right><Right><Right><Right><Right><Right><Rigany <Right><Right><Right><Right><Left><Left><Left><Left><Del><Del>calls placed she <Right><Right><Right><Right><Right><Right><Right><Right><Right>.. she said she understood ...eg"
Is there some way for the parser to emulate the effect of all those Left, Rights, and Dels (as in overwriting characters when Left is used, or Deleting characters when Del is used, etc.)? The text files being parsed will be under 50k...is this too much to parse at once, or can I get it all into a single scaler? Thanks again!

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