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Hi,
 I wanted to read in a file with the following format

Date  number number 

where date is a string such as "4-Oct-08" and numbers are floating point.

 I want to be able to do some searches (using find) on the Date. How do I read in the file such that I can do the searches on the date ?

 Many thanks.

John.