search for: stopline

...Column2 Column3 ... Row1 1 2 3 ... ... @@End OtherValues@@ I looked in the help files and found grep which operates on character strings, do I have to like this then? 1. Read file with readLines("foo.txt") 2. grep this object for the start and end of each section ->startline & stopline 3. Read the file again with read.table("foo.txt",skip=startline,nrows=stoplin-startline) Or is there a more beautiful way? Cheers, --------------------------------------------- Henrik Andersson Netherlands Institute of Ecology - Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology P.O. Box 140 4400...