Kenneth,

MS Notepad v 5.1. I tried Notepad+ a few years back, but didn't keep it, because I had UltraEdit and was/am very familiar with it.

Did you notice? I ran your last version of my code just fine on his two zipped files.

Ureka! I unzipped them again, this time with 7zip, and reproduced the problem. The first time I used AlZip.

So. I dug thru my archives and installed WinZip 7. Same Issue: one long string of numbers.

Alzip is free.