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09-25-2006

Perderabo

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Try this:

Code:


$ sed 's/\<[^<]*\>//g;s/.*mX *\([-0-9]*\).*$/\1/' < string
-151557
$ sed 's/\<[^<]*\>//g;s/.*mY *\([-0-9]*\).*$/\1/' < string
6768743
$