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Here is a little sed script thats a lot more robust; it can even deal with input like this:


Identifier ( Field1a,Field1b, Field1c; Field2a, Field2b;
Field3a; ..... )


sed...

--Assumption here is fields in this file aren't actually named Field1a, Field2a, etc. but have real names.

awk -F'[;,]' '/^\)/{p=0}p==1{sub(/^[( ]*/,"",$1); print $1}/^Identifier/{p=1}' infile
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