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Originally Posted by phudgens

The alternative awk returned:
"XYZ Public Company :COMPANY NAME"

My previous use of sed returned:
"XYZ Public Company" which is what I needed.

Thanks,

Paul H.

sorry, a snafu on my part:

Code:

echo 'COMP. XYZ Public Company :COMPANY NAME' | nawk '{st=substr($0, index($0, " ")+1);match(st, "[^:][^:]*"); print substr(st, RSTART, RLENGTH-1) }'

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That works!

Thanks loads,

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