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Hi all,

I have a file which contains comments,dotted lines(-------),actual records etc.I need to fetch only the actual records and put into a new file neglecting/deleting other rows.I have a header record too which contains the column names for the actual records.i need to discard this too.how do i do it...??pls help me out....find below a sample file

aaaaaa
bbbbbbbbbbbbbb
cccccccccccccccc
abc


--------------------

"card details"
"bank name"#"store no"#"amt1"#"amt2"#"rate"#"conversion";
HSBC#1000#1,234.10#1,111.11#2#1 USD = 50 INR# ;
HDFC#2000#2,222.22#3,333.33#4#1 EUR = 60 INR# ;
SBI#100#200#300.00#8#1 GBP = 30 INR# ;


i need only the last three lines...

what is the desired output ? and what did you try so far ?

Regards

Try this:

It works well with the sample input file you given.

Code:

grep '# ;$' filename

the desired output i want is

HSBC#1000#1,234.10#1,111.11#2#1 USD = 50 INR# ;
HDFC#2000#2,222.22#3,333.33#4#1 EUR = 60 INR# ;
SBI#100#200#300.00#8#1 GBP = 30 INR# ;

here # is not a comment but a delimiter....

grep "^[A-Z]" input_file
This will give you all the lines that start with Capital letters

is this ok ?

Regards

Thank you guys... ;-) i got it