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extracting few characters from file

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Name: trichyselva
Date: January 1, 2008 at 23:08:09 Pacific
Subject: extracting few characters from file
OS: windows xp
CPU/Ram: p4
Model/Manufacturer: pentium

Comment:

i want to extract few characters from a flat file using special character || as field separator
how to do it
suggestions please

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Response Number 1

Name: James Boothe
Date: January 3, 2008 at 07:51:50 Pacific
Subject: extracting few characters from file

Reply: (edit)

Here is a file with columns delimited by double bar characters:
aaa||bbbbb||cc
xxx||Happy New Year||yyyyy
The following code will locate lines having "xxx" in column 1, and will print column 2 from each of those lines:
awk -F"[|][|]" '$1=="xxx" {print $2}' infile
Happy New Year

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