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Old 03-19-2005
mskarica mskarica is offline
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Thanks. That worked exactly how I needed it to. If you don't mind, can you explain what this means for me so I know in the future:

's/^\([0-9]*\)[:].*/ \ 1/p'

Thanks a lot.