Hi Not debian related but i need help nonetheless.
i need to extract the number 997841138254, or any other number from that position, from an hl7 file. The file will look like this : MSH.......OBR|0001||997841138254|..........F I can use "OBR" as the starting point of the search and then use the "|" to move to the begginning of the number... What would be the best way of doing this.. maybe i can use a vi script to search and extract the number for me. I don't know how to select a segment of a line and write that to a file though.. i am not too familiar with sed although i would like to be as it seems rather powerful :) Any suggestions would be appreciated. thanx
