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Old 07-22-2011, 02:14 PM   #16
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Looks like I jumped the gun. New input I would use:
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awk 'BEGIN{FS = ","}$1 ~ /TITLE/{split($1,a,">");gsub(a[2],"");$1 = $1 a[2] FS;gsub(/ +/," ")}1' file
 
Old 07-22-2011, 02:15 PM   #17
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