BullClip

It's cool !!! Found a workable solution. https://www.cubecart.com/extensions/product-feeds/mass-import-of-categories For $14 bucks it saved a lot of headaches. It does what it says on the tin - allows you to mass create categories as many deep as you like. Once the cats are made - you simply refer to them by name in the importer Simples

Thanks very much for your time and reply bsmither !! But what my burning question is.... Can you create a parent category at time of import y using an escape char ? So far I have tried \ and / and // and ; nothing seems to desperate my list like the comma does But having in excess of 450 categories (some 4 deep in places) I am needing a way to create parent cats automagically..

is it possible to do this at Bulk Import time.... i.e. is there a break sequence like a semicolon or backslash ==> Consumer Electronics \ Cell Phones