Hi Siingeo (btw: is that your first name?), Singeo wrote: > ... I followed Sebatian's advice to use print instead of puts and > that solved my problem. Running out of time now, but I see that Sebastian has given the correct answer already. I was on the same track, which is why I was asking for the code to see how you read and write the lines. > But I would still like to understand how to > remove the newline characters. Here's my code as it currently stands > (with "rssfile.print line" in place of "rssfile.puts line"), hopefully > it will help you see how I was trying to tackle the problem. You may have done well removing the newlines (to be more precise: the carriage returns or "\r" characters), but then when writing the lines you add it back again: Hermann