> I was playing with parsing MARC records into tags and sub-tags, etc. heh so this disease is catching I was playing at a similar project tried in a few languages and using ready made libraries but were all too slow so went back to C, but never did finish my project http://www.marc.archivist.info/searchv10.php?searchv4page=1&errlev=0&searchstr=smith That was the start of an attempt at getting a large data set to test my search engine which is behind my little book and manual collection http://www.collection.archivist.info/ Dave Caroline