I everyone. I am at a brick wall. I am attempting to match a pattern that is inconsistant in a large file.

Back ground. This is a circuit report that is generated to a flat file. The report wraps the circuit name to the next line if it goes beyone it's parameters.

Example:
Circuit 12.27 ABC WIRELESS nnn-n |Up |VCC    |   |
    nnn                          |   |       |   |
 ABC1                            |   |50.1   |12|ON
 ABC1                            |   |50.2   | 3|Off

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This is shortened for readability but the beginning is what I am looking at.

In this file all circuits are represented in either 3 or 4 lines.

Circuit Name line is either followed by the rest of circuit name/number or ABC1|ABC2.

What I need is to join second 1/2 of Circuit name on line two to line one circuit name.

The first line always starts at ^
the second line (if wrapped) starts at the fifth space from ^
the third and fourth line (ABC1|ABC2) starts at the second space from ^

or if not wrapped first line starts at ^
second and third start at the seond space from ^

any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you Lost Boy

In reply to Look ahead and comp if pattern matches next line by Er1kW

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