Thanks for the quick reply. Yes, I know of the utility and I could use that, but I'm still back to part of my original problem.

Parsing out the vital information from the line and comparing and then taking action.

I guess I could find the minutes portion and then grab out the three characters from the left and then strip out blanks which should leave me with either 1 or 2 numbers. Then I could do IF > 1 do task or IF < 1 do other task?

Does this sound right? or is there maybe a better way? I'll start trying to strip out the wanted portion and see where I get.

I guess I need to learn parsing and do while stuff a little better, it keeps coming up over and over lately.