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The pattern looks like the following three lines after '** AB.*07'

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sed -n -e '/^\*\* ABC.*07$/{N;N;N;p}' input

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Hi Vino,

The actual data has random number of lines so we can't take those as reference
but there's a fixed number of fields for "mma k= qqqq".
This is tough to tackle.

Last edited by Raynon; 10-11-2007 at 07:39 AM..

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