Why are you trying to convert it to "a pipe delimited file, or something similar"? What are you going to do with it then? Get it into Excel? Access? Some other system?

If so, you may do well to go directly to that system, and not go to the intermediate text file stage. Give us a little more background on your project and we may be able to provide more insight.

xoxo,
Andy
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