Thank you all for your responses. I will carefully study the suggestions provided. sam is new to me and I am trying hard to learn it. There are obvious errors in the script I provided and I apologise for those. I could as Rob suggested simply apply the ed script, but I am trying to learn sam's way of doing things.
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