Very much so;thank you.

Of course you're the other side of the pond so any regexs aren't likely to work for me, but it points me in the right direction. As you point out there are likely many ways of doing the task and I don't want to waste too much time exploring them. I would rather know a way that it will work and learn what I need to of a relatively small area of the language

I am going to have to iterate over the fields in each record to find the postcode (it's not in a regular place)using a comparison to a known format which is what I did last time

I'll get there!

In reply to Re^2: Parsing/manipulating CSV files by Ansi
in thread Parsing/manipulating CSV files by Ansi

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