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Old 02-14-2008
bakunin bakunin is offline Forum Staff  
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As the pipe symbol is the last char in the line it is matched by "|$". From there it is easy to construct the following regexp:

sed 's/.*\([NU]\)|$/\1/'

i hope this helps

bakunin