Thanks for the reply. Problem is that there are 5 diff greps, and each does the same thing, switching the files, so each iterance of the file is already "slimmed" down. This is for phonograph records, so there may have been an artist or label already GREPed. This has always worked fine, only my alteration does not. And the reason I use an array is there could be one word, 2,3,4 etc.