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Old 08-31-2007
charbel charbel is offline
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Is that number composed of 5 digits only?
if YES, then you can use the awk command and you can print that substring only....

code:
cat input.txt|awk 'BEGIN {FS=":"} {print substr($2,1,5)}'

this may help.....