So I've been looking at the documentation for COPY, and I'm curious about a number of features which do not appear to be included, and whether these functions are found someplace else: 1) How do I skip an arbitrary # of "header" lines (e.g. > 1 header line) to begin reading in data? 2) Is it possible to screen out lines which begin with a comment character (common outputs for csv/txt files from various programs)? 3) Is there a way to read in fixed width files? Thanks! --j -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD NRC Research Associate NASA Ames Research Center MS 242-4 Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 Office: 650-604-5896 Cell: 415-794-5043 AIM: jgrn307 MSN: jgrn307@xxxxxxxxxxx