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On 06.04.2011 21:25, gio001 wrote:
> On Apr 6, 1:24 pm, Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanag...@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On 06.04.2011 16:40, gio001 wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I have thousand of messages (HL7),
>>
>> Provide sample data for a few HL7 records.

(This request has meanwhile been repeated a couple times.)

[...]
> 
> I perfectly understand what you are suggesting, I tried this form in
> vain:
> awk '/PV1\|\([^|]*\|\)\{16\}\|X/ {print $0}}' infile > outfile
> yet the same exact costruct works in
> grep 'PV1\|\([^|]*\|\)\{16\}\|X' infile > outfile

You are repeating yourself, thus completely ignoring what I suggested
to clarify your task.

1. Please don't try to give your cryptic tries without explaining what you
actually want to achieve.

2. Provide sample data for a few HL7 records.

[snip of irrelevant repetitions]

> Hope I explained myself.

Nope. (See above.)

> Thanks.

Good luck.

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Regular expression in awk gio001 <gcrippa@gmail.com> - 2011-04-06 07:40 -0700
  Re: Regular expression in awk pk <pk@pk.invalid> - 2011-04-06 16:01 +0100
  Re: Regular expression in awk Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-06 19:24 +0200
    Re: Regular expression in awk Manuel Collado <m.collado@domain.invalid> - 2011-04-06 21:07 +0200
    Re: Regular expression in awk gio001 <gcrippa@gmail.com> - 2011-04-06 12:25 -0700
      Re: Regular expression in awk Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-06 23:09 +0200
        Re: Regular expression in awk gio001 <gcrippa@gmail.com> - 2011-04-06 19:59 -0700
          Re: Regular expression in awk Loki Harfagr <l0k1@thedarkdesign.free.fr.INVALID> - 2011-04-07 07:32 +0000
            Re: Regular expression in awk gio001 <gcrippa@gmail.com> - 2011-04-07 05:06 -0700
              Re: Regular expression in awk Loki Harfagr <l0k1@thedarkdesign.free.fr.INVALID> - 2011-04-07 13:34 +0000
                Re: Regular expression in awk gio001 <gcrippa@gmail.com> - 2011-04-07 08:27 -0700
                Re: Regular expression in awk Loki Harfagr <l0k1@thedarkdesign.free.fr.INVALID> - 2011-04-07 18:32 +0000
      Re: Regular expression in awk Geoff Clare <geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid> - 2011-04-07 13:34 +0100
        Re: Regular expression in awk arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) - 2011-04-07 13:31 +0000
          Re: Regular expression in awk Geoff Clare <geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid> - 2011-04-08 13:18 +0100

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