> i've got a little puzzler and i thought i'd let more/bigger
> (:-) minds than just mine ponder a solution.
>
> i've got a simple little text file with two pieces of
> information on each record.  the first 'word' (piece of
> information) could be considered as a key value.  that is --
> another process will be examining this file looking for a
> match on the first field.  (and btw, since i know the
> data....most of the time the match will fail....).  if a
> match is found, i need the 2nd 'word' (piece of information)
> placed into a ci variable.  sound rather simple....except
> that last piece -- getting the information from the file
> into a variable.

How are you finding the matching record in the file? I.e. what is this
"another process" that's examining the file?

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