Sorry i think i missed out some info when i pasted my database. The info in the database is displayed like this

John32451^23.21 >tyyhg>tdsrte^>1.24


the information which i want retrieved would be the 23.21 and 1.24.

the problem i am having is how do i get the prog to read this two numbers and display it.
I guess the best way would be to do a search on the unique id which will be "John32451^" as the value i want is next to it. but from there, how do i get the prog to read the value till it ends with a ">"?

Hope that explains more GCDEF