To me, this screams for an answer in Perl, where text streaming and regular expressions should make short work of the issue. That being said, I have no doubt similar answers could be derived from most of the scripting languages in similar short order, dependent on familiarity. Kristopher Browne kris.browne at gmail.com kris.browne at me.com 612-353-6969 - Home 612-408-4431 - Cell http://www.google.com/profiles/kris.browne Now Playing: See You On The Other Side - This Binary Universe - BT You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair. On Jul 26, 2009, at 5:26 PM, Scott Raun wrote: > My google-fu is failing - the hits I'm getting are all for either GUI > stuff, or not quite what I'm headed for. > > Longer form - I have a file with e-mail and snail-mail addresses. I > need to send an e-mail to everyone in the file to verify their snail- > mail address. They all paid for a copy of a book 'on publication' - > payment was 1.5+ years ago, 'on publication' is in another month, we > need to make certain we have current addresses. > > Suggestions? Something to point me in an appropriate direction? > > -- > Scott Raun > sraun at fireopal.org > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20090726/d45b4fa4/attachment.htm