I have a file like


"42949539976057468996159178968072920078282731623874 CPN_01_POK_CAD 6457527 200 CAD 0 10 round sitout 16591 10385302 7 0 0 1"
"42949540001911141757145953742592175214550679440651 CPN_01_POK_CAD 6910167 200 CAD 0 10 round sitout 22399 10416922 4 0 0 1"
"CPN_01_POK_CAD Q1BOMQAB7ekAAAExslbgY9a9Kd8_ 8812105 42949539952993068120316222639213919055452543761306 3.14 CAD 27461 10532734 0.86 1 0 0 0 1"
"42949539982993260586129273371133791155450805273741 CPN_01_POK_CAD Q1BOMQABhycAAAExsi0UxH68ox8_ 8812278 2.5 0 0.1233333333 4 3 3 2.5 0 0 0 CAD 0 97.5 CAD 0 1138 10532317 0 0 1"
"CPN_01_POK_CAD Q1BOMQABhycAAAExsi0UxH68ox8_ 8812278 42949539982993214768129272629788109125953813023279 98.5 CAD 1138 10532317 1.5 2 0 0 0 1"
"42949539992993420895312187639212981354558175398436 CPN_01_POK_CAD Q1BOMQABx34AAAExsmGJ6rkLdCk_ 8812279 0.57 0.96 0.0249673841 8 6 13 0.16 0.41 0 0 CAD 3 4.39 CAD 0 17613 10532274 0 0 1"
"CPN_01_POK_CAD Q1BOMQAB7ekAAAExslbgY9a9Kd8_ 8812105 42949539952993485057316220436689681087896076270449 2.87 CAD 27461 10532734 1.13 1 0 0 0 1"
"CPN_01_POK_CAD Q1BOMQAB7ekAAAExslbgY9a9Kd8_ 8812105 42949539952993559124316225180820634980294188483527 2.83 CAD 27461 10532734 1.17 1 0 0

I want a output of field before the CAD match word.


like output is

200 CAD
200 CAD
3.14 CAD

what have you tried so far?

grep .....CAD file

This is a little tricky as the fields you want occur at variable positions in the lines, as well as multiple occurrences of the " CAD " pattern in some lines. But you can exploit that sed is greedy.
It is unclear from your post whether the lines are single lines in you input file, or broken across multiple lines.
If single lines, I would suggest this:

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