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Hi RobP,

One way using perl:

$ cat infile
/*------XXXXXX-------*/

owner: XXXX
location: XXXX
Comment: XXXX
Phone: XXXX

/*------XXXXXX-------*/

owner: XXXX
location: XXXX
Desc:...

Try...awk '/\/\*------/{if(b)print b;b=$0;next}NF{b=b "^" $0}END{print b}' file1 > file2

The variable $state is set before the while loop, but not in the loop, so it never changes