On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Baskaran.K wrote: > new file name; named "*.lis". After the extraction, I wish to sort the > information before the compilation over. On *nix based environment i wud just issue the command sort filename.lis or sort *.lis for that matter if you are using Windows based environment u can just googlize : sort for dos or something. HTH -- Nikhil Earth,19.12N 73.02E