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I think I found the answer here.

http://coldfused.blogspot.com/2007/07/new-file-io-in-coldfusion-8.html

I didn't read your link, but my method would be to treat the file as a list separated by chr(10) & chr(13).

Both techniques would work. I have not done much work with the new file
objects.  But the difference seems to be whether the entire file is read into
memory at once or only portions of it.  For large files, the technique in the
blog entry would be a better fit. Because it works with smaller chunks of
information.  I do not know if it makes a difference with smaller files.

From: http://coldfused.blogspot.com/2007/07/new-file-io-in-coldfusion-8.html
[i]With cfloop, you can also iterate over a part of the file by specifying
"from" and "to" values. Here is an example to loop over lines between 10 and
20.[/i]
<cfloop file="c:\temp\myfile.txt" index="line" from=10 to=20>
    <cfoutput>#line#</cfoutput> <!--- or do whatever with the line --->
</cfloop>