text input file

Hi, I have input file with fields delimited by tabs. One field contains an html anchor with javascript (for paypal) to be printed in the resulting html file. But when I printf(), that one field causes a "too few arguments error". I've used the htmlentities() to replace the quotes(" and '), & out but to no avail. It won't even print the buffer containing an entire text line, before exploding() it into fields. ohhhh...how the hours have passed by! Thanks Niels