This is what worked:

ReadFile>C:\Users\myname\Desktop\Counter.txt,lastfile
trim>lastfile,lastfile

Thanks for all your help!! It was making me frustrated!

that's great Dorian! Thanks...I give those a try!!

Hi Dorian...thanks for the reply! I do have the Endif at the end. Would I need any brackets or quotations? Do I need to Dim any values? Does combining the date & time confuse the comparison? Thanks!!

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