OK, this VB 2003 is way different than programming in "C" 15 years ago.

Now a lawyer, I'm programming to pass time. I tried IO.File.ReadAllLines, however it's not in ver 2003.

This first 12 characters of a record in my txt file is what I want to sort on. A typical record starts like this "01E118750216. . ." all ASCII with a CRLF to end the record. The file could be big with 2000 records.

Russell