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Old 02-11-2009
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Code:
echo 'COMP. XYZ Public Company :COMPANY NAME' | sed 's/^[^ ][^ ]* *\([^:][^:]*\)[ ][ ]*:.*/\1/'

Last edited by vgersh99; 02-11-2009 at 02:49 PM.. Reason: rid of the trailing spaces