sorry for the lack of information. Here is some more.
The text is at the top of the file and goes down the page in a single column. So I need for every even entry of the file to be on the right side of the ode entry. Like so:

dm1w50
5.5.1

Should look like this:
dm1w50 5.5.1

This should continue until the end of file. I want to write this back to a new file stored in the same location as the old file..
I;m still trying to decide if I should do this as a while loop or a foreach loop. I'm currently looking through books trying to make my decision.
The file looks like the example above but just a lot more entries.
curtisb

In reply to Re: Re: Reading Text from file and reorganization by curtisb
in thread Reading Text from file and reorganization by curtisb

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