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Old 09-29-2013
This should work if there are multiple occurrences of that pattern in the file..
Code:
sed "N;/\n.*|| ',' ||/!s/|| ',' ||//;"'$!P;$!D' file

file:
Code:
CAST(CAST( A as varchar(50)) || ',' ||
CAST(CAST( B as varchar(50)) || ',' ||
CAST(CAST( C as varchar(50)) || ',' ||
CAST(CAST( C as varchar(50)) || ',' ||
FROM qwer
CAST(CAST( A as varchar(50)) || ',' ||
CAST(CAST( B as varchar(50)) || ',' ||
CAST(CAST( C as varchar(50)) || ',' ||
CAST(CAST( C as varchar(50)) || ',' ||
FROM qwer

Output:
Code:
CAST(CAST( A as varchar(50)) || ',' ||
CAST(CAST( B as varchar(50)) || ',' ||
CAST(CAST( C as varchar(50)) || ',' ||
CAST(CAST( C as varchar(50)) 
FROM qwer
CAST(CAST( A as varchar(50)) || ',' ||
CAST(CAST( B as varchar(50)) || ',' ||
CAST(CAST( C as varchar(50)) || ',' ||
CAST(CAST( C as varchar(50)) 
FROM qwer


Last edited by Scrutinizer; 09-29-2013 at 04:52 PM..
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Old 09-30-2013
CarloM: I couldn't have done better explaining.
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