Hi, you should not distinguish last or other cells. Do you really want to discard the last cell in your result? You could use: cell = many1 $ noneOf "\n," endBy cell (oneOf "\n,") This would give you all cells of a file. To get all cells of a single line use: line = sepBy cell (char ',') and skip the final newline. To get all lines of a file use: endBy line (char `\n') HTH Christian you wrote: 2012-12-18 08:58:45 GMT I tried file = do res <- endBy (try cell) (char ',') l <- lastCell eof return res cell = many1 (noneOf ",") lastCell = many1 (noneOf "\n") But that does not work because cell succeeds on the last cell. I can replace the endBy by many (try $ do {a <- cell; string ","; return a}) Nathan