I can''t seem to figure out a good way to tackle the problem Im parsing a text chunk in a tablelike format Unit Total Attacking I have no problem parsing the lines I just check for spaces in between each column in the string. But then this problem occured: Red Wizard 50 Trolls Now checking for spaces doesn''t work because it stops at the space between red and wizard. I have a similar problem if the unit being attack had a space. I''m coding this in vbscript for my website str_start '' Starting Marker str_stop '' Ending Marker str_start = 1 '' Start at beginning of string '' Place End Marker where first " " occurs in string line str_stop = InStr(str_start, line, " ", 1) '' Grab the sub string; length is stop - start unit = Mid(line, str_start, str_stop - str_start) I don''t need the solution to be in vbscript as this is a very generic problem. Any insight into a solution would be appreciated. Zorb

Well, consider the information you have available; you can''t count on spaces as field delimiters, but the middle field is always a numeral. So read each word, find the one that''s a number, and then concatenate all the previous fields as the "Unit" and all the subsequent fields as the "Attacking".

But... but that''s what HITLER would say!!