Text parsing is quite challenging in filemaker. I can’t go into detail about exactly how you would do it because it can be quite different depending on the data that you want to parse. I might be able to at least point you in the right direction. Here are a couple questions for you:

What type of delimiter does the file use?

Are the lines you would like to dispose of uniform?

I have a similar problem a little more complicated. I am importing whole folders of text files. Those text files have lines that I want converted to records. I want to accomplish more or less the same thing, and that is, to import the content of the text file in a TEMP field and later parse it.

The only problem is that the content of that TEMP field has to be converted to N number of records and then the data (a couple of fields only) parsed to fields.

How do I start to parse the lines that are going to be records (some lines are junk) and then parse the fields?

Geoff