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# 8  
Old 09-04-2012
Many thanks for all the responses which I got.
All the scripts both in Perl and AWK worked perfectly.
I could not implement sed since I am in windows environment and sed does not work under Windows. I am sorry but I should have mentioned that.
# 9  
Old 09-04-2012
Just replace sed with awk..Smilie

Code:
$tr '\n' "=" < file |  awk '{ gsub("==","\n")}1'

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Old 09-04-2012
Many thanks. Tried your suggestion and it works beautifully,
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