Howdee all !

I have an application that hacks down a text file for viewing/db import. While its working now(with help from folks here, thanks !) I have a new problem. one field that already gets seperated out for display/view needs to be refined further.

There is a general text "block" that has to be seperated into three seperate text strings so the DB import can put them into the appropriate fields. The three strings have their own desiginator characters, and I thought I would just parse the string then hold them into seperate memory spaces via varible declarations in the import sub function. Problem is, I'm not sure how parse/seperate the text in VB6 because I'm THAT much of a newbie.

The seperators are -
No characters is the basic problem description that comes in originally.
XXX denotes update remarks for the particular entry.
/// OR \\\ denotes a close to the entry in question.

EXAMPLE -
Original problem gets listed, it's usually a fairly short string. XXX Problem gets some sort of update text. XXX Maybe some more update text gets added here. /// Then they close the problem report for that particular entry like this.

Can anyone explain to me how to pull this off?

John