Its not HW its for my job, im trying to parse data outputed from a sel2030. Ive never used regexs before and I am having a hard time figuring out read down a list and to get the parser to start at correct place in the list. Is there anyway besides using split? I am passing these regex expressions into xml attributes so if there is a way to do it without using perl commands that would be optimal. Any ideas great Monks?