What you sent I took and it worked great, I have a slit modification I need, and I am not sure how to get it working. When I have a line ending in a ) I want to through it out unless in the same string you find .dat, if so then I want to keep the (from exp below) 58bn5904 and also keep the 859216 bytes.

DATA:
e:\logfiles\beardstownbase.log [3] Thu 22Jun06 08:07:20 - (006415) Sent file d:\data\58bn5904.sta successfully (1.05 Kb/sec - 61 bytes)
 
e:\logfiles\beardstownbase.log [3] Thu 22Jun06 08:07:20 - (006415) Sending file d:\data\58bn5904.sta
 
e:\logfiles\beardstownbase.log [3] Thu 22Jun06 08:07:19 - (006415) Sent file d:\data\58bn5904.dat successfully (25.0 Kb/sec - 859216 bytes)
 
e:\logfiles\beardstownbase.log [3] Thu 22Jun06 08:06:46 - (006415) Sending file d:\data\58bn5904.dat

Output Looking for:
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e:\logfiles\beardstownbase.log [3] Thu 22Jun06 08:07:20 - (006415) Sent file d:\data\58bn5904.sta successfully (1.05 Kb/sec - 61 bytes)
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e:\logfiles\beardstownbase.log [3] Thu 22Jun06 08:07:20 - (006415) Sending file d:\data\58bn5904.sta
Extract beardstownbase, Thu 22Jun06 08:07:19, 58bn5904, 859216 bytes 
e:\logfiles\beardstownbase.log [3] Thu 22Jun06 08:07:19 - (006415) Sent file d:\data\58bn5904.dat successfully (25.0 Kb/sec - 859216 bytes)
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e:\logfiles\beardstownbase.log [3] Thu 22Jun06 08:06:46 - (006415) Sending file d:\data\58bn5904.dat