thank you marshall, I really appreciate your response , my problem now is to extract same type of tables lets say position log table here, as all the position log tables have same format, i want to know the start and end line numbers of these tables ,how can I do that mind you I have a huge text file order of gb's I want to extract similar tables and export them so that I can code them table specific (also table doesn't contain just a table it has some details, here place and time %I want to store these as well % )

approach: say every position log table has extension Fp379 and all pages start with the year ,I want to use these keywords%Fp379 for position log page and 2017 for all pages % to separate the required tables

like wise similar pages start with same extension. 
2017 Position log :Fp379
place: cal
time: 23:01:45


   |   |      |Pos     |value   |   |bulk|lot|   prev| newest|
   |#  |Locker|(dfg)   |(no)    |nul|val |Id |   val |val   |
   -----------------------------------------------------------
   |  0|     1|  302832|  -11.88|  1|   0|Pri|     16|      0|
   |  1|     9|  302836|   11.88|  9|   0|Pri|     10|      0|
   |  2|     1|  302832|  -11.88|  5|   3|Pri|     14|      4|
   |  3|     3|  302833|   11.88|  1|   0|sec|     12|      0|
   |  4|     6|  302837|  -11.88|  1|   0|Pri|     16|      3|

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