(apologies of this is a duplicate posting, my original seems to have not made it) Could someone provide some guidance as how to resolve the following. A file which needs to be processed and made into a pline. The sample file below, is composed of object name, other data, and points. OPEN P8-160 ,PLAN,-45.59995 , 15 OPEN P8-160 ,PLAN, 0.3000584 , 15 OPEN P8-160 ,PLAN, 0.3000584 ,-15 OPEN P8-160 ,PLAN,-45.59995 ,-15 OPEN P8-160 ,PLAN,-45.59995 , 15 OPEN P8-160 ,PROFILE,-45.59995 ,-15 OPEN P8-160 ,DECK,-45.59995 , 15 TOPN 160 ,PLAN,-45.59995 , -15 TOPN 160 ,PLAN,-55.59995 , 15 TOPN 160 ,PLAN,-55.59995 , 15 TOPN 160 ,PLAN,-45.59995 , -15 Processing: each line is read from the file - converted to a list - cleaned - modified then passed to the subroutine below. The following is result of processing and is then passed one line at a time to the subroutine below. OPEN P8-160,-45.59995,15 OPEN P8-160, 0.3000584,15 OPEN P8-160, 0.3000584,-15 OPEN P8-160,-45.59995,-15 OPEN P8-160,-45.59995,15 TOPN 160,-45.59995,-15 TOPN 160,-55.59995,15 TOPN 160,-55.59995,15 TOPN 160,-45.59995,-15 Desired finished point lists: OPEN P8-160,-45.59995,15,0.3000584,15,0.3000584,-15,-45.59995,-15,-45.59995,15 TOPN 160,-45.59995,-15,-55.59995,15,-55.59995,15,-45.59995,-15 Where the OPEN P8-160 and TOPN 160 are the object name of the PLINE created. Problem: my subroutine below almost does the job. It fails to return the last object in the file, in the above example TOPN. ; plz = read-line as list ; Xplx = tmp ; Xplzz = output list (defun plplconv (plz / Xplx Xplzz) (setq Xplzz nil) (if (/= 0 (length Xplx)) (progn (if (/= nil (member (nth 0 plz) Xplx)) (progn (setq Xplx (cons (nth 1 plz) Xplx)) (setq Xplx (cons (nth 2 plz) Xplx)) ) (progn (setq Xplzz Xplx) (setq Xplx nil) (setq Xplx (reverse plz)) ) )   (progn (setq Xplx nil) (setq Xplx (reverse plz)) (setq Xplzz nil)     (reverse Xplzz)   Oh and yes, this needs to be AutoCAD 14 compatible... Any help you can provide is appreciated. Joseph-
luis, thanks I should have stated this is more of a collation of list instead of a list manipulation. Still I might learn something from what Ralph Gimenez has written. joseph