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You can't use Create for static splitters, you need to use CreateStatic Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

Without looking at your code I'm going to guess that it's because you need to use \r\n instead of just \n. Try that and see if it makes a difference. Regards, Alvaro

I wouldn't use strtok (mostly because I wrote the CQStringParser class). If you're using CStdio, you're using MFC. If you're using MFC, CQStringParser would be abetter choice because it parses the strings for you without you having to do anything but instantiate an object with a string and a delimiter character. Check out that class and see if it doesn't work better than strtok. Besides all that, CString has a Replace() function that can replace all instances of one character with another. "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001