Thanks Andreas, In your first paragraph, you ask about incorrect input. I guess it is possible, but without that information, my collection of the data is useless, so I really don't know what I would do with that.
As for the other stuff, I can hack the data in other ways, such as with VBA and MSAccess, which I am more familiar with, but I am trying to move to Linux and want to do it right the first time. I figure Perl is the more common language for this kind of stuff, but I did want to try to learn some Python while I am at it. I have started the tutorial, but being a businessman, time is an issue, which, if I had an example script that did a similar thing, I can learn by doing that (I am looking for something similar now). I do live in a low-labor cost country, so I can hire someone to do it for a small amount of money, but Python people are a little harder to find. Thanks for the comments, Clint -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
