Thanks for the quick response moritz. Sample lines listed below:

Lines from PIDS (this is the smaller (~16k record) file:

dn: cn=*****,ou=users,|810221480
dn: cn=*****,ou=users,|810039655
dn: cn=*****,ou=users,|810086196
dn: cn=*****,ou=users,|810008482
dn: cn=*****,ou=users,|810224329

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Lines from FIDS (larger, ~240k records): 
810000001;08/17/1957
810000002;12/02/1975
810000003;12/22/1982
810000004;11/01/1967
810000005;02/07/1981
810000006;12/27/1967
810000007;05/09/1981
810000008;05/14/1976
810000009;10/24/1981
810000010;11/17/1943

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I'm trying to match on the 810* ids. Thanks for your help.

In reply to Re^2: My code sucks, please help me understand why. by mirage4d
in thread My code sucks, please help me understand why. by mirage4d

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