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Re^9: Ignoring lines in flat text file
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 12, 2007 at 00:24 UTC
    None of those lines have 800, 866, 877 or 888 in positions 14-16. Do you mean 18-20? Even then, every single line in the desired output is different than the ones in the input, including the two that start with 2.