I may be wrong but having looked at BOL I think I could use the OPENXML statement to achieve this. Example from BOL as below.

DECLARE @idoc int

DECLARE @doc varchar(1000)

SET @doc...

Hi Phil, thanks for the reply. Yes that does sound much neater than what I'm already trying and I will certainly going to give that a go this afternoon, how...

Thank you for the replies they are much appreciated, I'll give one of the work arounds suggested a go.

Edit : Added a delete file task at the control flow level...