Hi List, I wrote an OCaml function to read a text file with a million of lines with five separate columns for spaces. I based myself on previous messages of Caml-list, but however the work is taking time frightful (many minutes). This function written in C, for example, does not take more than 4 seconds. I am executing the program in a PC Pentium III of 128 MB of RAM under Windows platform. How would be implemented the function to decide this problem? File format: [attributes] [boundary marker] Thanks, André --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger - Fale com seus amigos online. Instale agora!