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Thank you very much, Alister, now it does exactly what I needed and I think I understand better how it works.

Thanks, everyone... unfortunately, I do need to preserve the order of the input file, but as I'm using it in a filter cat | awk | grep | sed ..., reading the data twice is not an option I think.
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Well...what I meant was: when it finds a line with "pause", search one line after another from top down for a line with a matching first column (letter-id) that contains "continue". Then take the...

Hello, I have only recently begun with awk and need to write this:
I have an input consisting of a couple of letters, a space and a number followed by various other characters:

fiRcQ 9( [various...