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Old 05-25-2009
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If it's a fixed-field record with '*' as the separator, you could use
Code:
awk -F'*' '{print $49}' file

Otherwise, if you only want the part after 'N1*PR*', this Perl snippet might help:
Code:
perl -ne 'print $1,"\n" if /N1\*PR\*(.*?)\*/;' file