I have a cobol program that will do this (tab delimited though). It gets the field sizes from the 1st record in the data file and then builds a temp file with the fixed length fields. We deal with multiple tab delimited files where we add the field size definition record to the datafile and the conversion works perfectly... If you would like the source, let me know and I'll send it to you. ____________________________________________________________ I am looking for a utility or some code that will run on a HP3000 that will convert a CSV formatted file that originated on a PC and has been transferred to the HP3000 into fixed width fields in a fixed length record. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks a million! Dick BT OP 5656 West 74th Street Indianapolis, IN 46278 Phone: 317/328-4971 FAX: 317/328-4970