No, that's correct - I was getting my knickers in a knot trying to figure out when I do the munging and output to a file. So what I essentially need to do here is read a row at a time, fiddle around with it and output it before working on the next line. I knew that logically, but couldn't figure out the forest for looking at the trees.

Thank you for breaking down what I need to do structurally - I have real problems with that aspect of coding (infrequent use). I think I have enough from you and Cody Pendant to be able to figure it out from here.