it worked. Thanks Philip 
. I have also written a code which output the same thing as is output by yours BUT it is a LONNGG code. Yours is so simple.
the output:
Code:
0:GRC,GE,201009,FUT,XGGRC,0G4LHZ013,14ijpol1vsu7l7,Fill,0000D9DB,B,00000,99.155,2,99.155,20100601,07:27:34
is there anyway I can find "how many and what are" the lines that are written more than once (can be any number) against each line ID. Where as line ID is the string right before the first colon ( : ).
For example how many of these lines (string below) are written against the ID zero and so on for each ID because then I will decide, based on certain condition, which line of the duplicates to select and put in another file which would contain just unique values.
Code:
GRC,GE,201009,FUT,XGGRC,0G4LHZ013,14ijpol1vsu7l7,Fill,0000D9DB,B,00000,99.155,2,99.155,20100601,07:27:34
If a line has no duplicates at all then this line should straight away be written to the file which will store unique lines
Many Thanks again
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