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I define the constant string. Then i want to compare string from file with this constant string. The file contain many line. Each line contain string and integer. It must search the same string with the string that defined before, so i can get tha value of integer to execute. This is the example of file contain: Tom 30 Mike 40 Ivan 35 etc.... What must i do? thanks before. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th