G'day Sundar, On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 01:03:54 -0800 Sundar Dorai-Raj <sdorairaj at gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, Berwin. That works just great! You are welcome. I noticed by now that "cat(tmp)" is sufficient; the "tmp[1]" in "cat(tmp[1])" was a left over from earlier attempts to get the output to look correct. Cheers, Berwin