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Terry, Thank you SO much for your time and effort here in providing such valuable assistance. It may be a little 'crude'; nevertheless, it is quite helpful to stimulate the thought process and logic. With the somewhat limited resources available for education and training in MEP, this forum appears to be a real asset. Again, your help is most appreciated! Doug

Hello all, I have a rather simple task; however, I'm new to MEP and could not find a specific reference to this need within help in the program, the first 15 pages of this forum or anywhere else . Just need a nudge in the right direction for which commands/variables to use... I need to extract a random value from a text file with 100 or so entries (which will vary) and append it to a text string I want to use for a separate purpose. The text file contains all integers that range from 1 to 10000 (and will change on a regular basis). Say the first 5 lines of the file are 37, 112, 156, 256, 423. There are 100+ such entries. I need to pull repeadly one value at random constantly changing and append it to a string. Text file process? Ugh. Thanks in advance for any guidance you could provide .