actually I missed an important piece of information here, I need the labels,login,searchload etc once and the subsequent values are to become rows of data, goal is to put this data into a database, a single line of csv is going to give me a row that exceeds limits in excel, data files are fairly small 11kb or so but there are a lot of them. The timestamp acts as a row separator of sorts its the time the test was run & it should start a new row in excel. this was a rush job I received late in the day and I am finding it much more challenging than I expected. I really appreciate the help.