Hi, This might sound very inane to most of you...... I want to know,if there exists a piece of code someplace,just to extract a line (record) from an ascii file,based on some input field in my input form and return the values to the client. I am avoiding re-invention of the wheel(ha!) Thank you, Sudha Sudha Parvangada Dept of Physics and Astronomy Louisiana State University LA 70808