sorry about the confusion. i should have said the file had multiple
lines besides the two listed.

i update the file once a week. it is a file with the top 100 stocks
this newspaper puts out.

so the file will have multiple lines and I guess I am really concerned
about the last two lines as that would be the most recent one.

I plan to put the results(added/dropped for the current week - still
working on the add part) to a file. this will help with my stock
research.

Once I get that part working I want to keep track of what has moved up
or down the array.

Hope this makes sense.
Alden

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 23:21:52 +0200, Gunnar Hjalmarsson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alden Meneses wrote:
> > if I don't use a loop it seems that it only processes 1st two lines.
> > is there another way I can process the file without a loop?
> 
> In your initial post you said:
> 
> "so i have a text file that looks like this
> 
> 10/04/2004 UPL TZOO CME CRDN WIBC PETD SMF
> 10/11/2004 UPL TZOO CME WIBC PETD VNBC AMED
> 
> anyway each line has 1 date field and 100 stock symbols and they are
> in order. I am trying to compare the different lines to see what has
> changed."
> 
> and when I said that the outer loops were redundant, I based it on the
> assumption that there are just two lines that you want to compare.
> Actually, everything I've said was based on that assumption.
> 
> Maybe it's time that you *really* explain what it is you want to do,
> including which lines you want to stuff in which arrays and which arrays
> you want to compare with which arrays...
> 
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