Hi, thanks for your input on this. I was sort of playing around with this. I figured out how to grab the last count. I found using $. to store this number and I figured out how to dump this to a file.

My question now is how can I use this as a place holder to start the regex the next time I run the script? I don't know if my logic works currently as I am grabbing data based on a given date, so I'm not sure if a count of record would help? or do you have another idea for a good key? thanks.