I am looking for someone to write a program for me.  It should be
fairly simple.  It will need to look in a specified txt file and
retrieve values from certain lines in the file, then produce a list.

Post a link to the list and you might get a post to the answer if it's so easy.

Are you planning on sending the file to someone and getting back
results or do you want to run the program on your computer?  If you
want someone to write a program that you can run on your computer, you
could try a service like this:

[ http://rentacoder.com/ ]

If you want someone to write you a program, you'll need to let them
know what operating system is on your computer (i.e. Windows, Linux,
etc.).  Will you want the source code for the program so you can later
make minor changes to the functionality of the program, or is a
program that you can only run "as is" acceptable?  Will the operation
of the program be exactly the same each time or will it be slightly
different each time you use it?  If so, how?

If you are only going to run the process once, you might not need a
program but rather, as suggested, simply put the file on the web where
others can get a copy of it and ask someone to help you extract the
information you need.  If extracting the values is fairly simple,
someone will probably help you out of kindness.  If the task is fairly
simple and you ask for advice on how you could do it yourself with
Excel, Access, VB, Java, or other software, you'll probably get a bit
of assistance that way as well.

This is a rather simple task. I've done it multiple times. I like
using awk to do it, and it can be rather fast.
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I can do this for you. Let me know if you are interested.

Yes easy enough to do. You will need to specify the operating system
though, e.g. Windows, Linux, UNIX, etc.

Do you want the user to specify the lines to extract?

Let me know and I'll code it for you, I will need a copy of the text
file. You can contact me through :- http://www.scp-computers.co.uk