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Old 03-18-2009
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Find line before blank

Hello,

I actually have two issues. First, here is the file the way it is now.

someword someword:1
new-word new-word abcd
someword someword:10
new-word new-word abcd
thisis whatIneed:3


someword someword:5
new-word new-word abcd

I need to get the line before the 2 blanks and move it to a different file. I've tried using sed, but keep getting error messages. Also, there may be none, one, or several instances of this within the file.

I should probably also mention that this is part of a larger perl script I'm working on. I have everything else done, the file above is actually generated by the script. I also have everything below it complete, but am completely stuck at this point.

Any help with either would be appreciated.

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