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hi if would like to get the phone number as an output, can you guide me here please

<A>213444555</A><B><B>ABCDEFG</B>

I just want to get the phone number from the file in between <A> and </A>

Thanks

what have you tried??

Thanks for the reply

I have tried the following

cat test|awk -F '<' '{print $1}'|grep '[0-9]\{2\}'
cat test|grep '\<"<A>[0-9]</A>"\>'

test file has the value in it

use sed

Code:

sed 's/\(<A>\)\([0-9]*[0-9]\)\(.*\)/\2/g' test

or

Code:

 
sed 's/<A>\([0-9]*[0-9]\)\(.*\)/\1/g' test

Thanks Very much, should it work for Alphebets by changing

0-9 to A-Z?
Thanks again

yes it will but where and what you want to extract depending on that use it

Thanks again Vidya, just one more thing, if you could explain the following part, i will really appereciate it

's/<A>\([0-9]*[0-9]\)\(.*\)/\1/g' and what difference does 2 make instead of one while replaceing it

sed 's/\(<A>\)\([0-9]*[0-9]\)\(.*\)/\2/g'

Thanks Again

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hi Again
sorry but this is what I was exactly trying to get from the following output but I thought that piece of code would work but didnt work for the following output

! TICKET NBR : 2 ! GSI : 23 ! 111111111 PPDBEP1 ! 356411158 RI:12 ! 3100.2.22.1 MTC ! 3100.2.20.1 4034673533 ! 3100.2.13.1 0.0
0 ! 3100.2.14.2 1348 ! 1.2.1.8 <A>1001001265856</A><B>ABCMobile</B><C>9999999</C><D>9999</D><E></E><F>CALGARY AB</
F><G>722X _CALGARY AB</G><H>99999</H><I>D212</I><J>09/06/2009 21:37:40</J><Q></Q><R>P1_T1_LOCAL</R><K>RL 0.00/60/60 QL 1380 C


i wanted to get abc mobile by itself form the output please