sed command losing first line of data when "&" present

[Snug]

I have a wierd situatiion. My program below is setup to remove blank lines and seperate the data into 3 files, and replace the "\&" with a "&" in the 'Style' name. It does this successfully, however, if there is a "&" present in the data, it will lose the first line of data.

I've even tried it with this line and it didn't work. I still lost the first line of data when a "&" was present. Any advise?

style=`awk -F"|" 'NR=1 { print $2; exit 0 }' 1$$.2out`

program

tmpfile1="./"${basefile}.hdr
tmpfile2="./"${basefile}.det
ok_file="./"${basefile}.ok

#--------Get rid of blank lines
sed 's/^		*//g' ${basefile}.html | sed '/^$/d' > 1$$.1out 

sed -e 's/<//g' -e 's/>/|/g' 1$$.1out >1$$.2out

style=`awk -F"|" 'NR=1 { print $2; exit 0 }' 1$$.2out | sed 's/\&amp;/\&/g'`

styledes=`awk -F"|" 'NR=1 { print $3; exit 0 }' 1$$.2out `

echo "$basefile|$location|$style|$styledes|" >$tmpfile1

awk -F"|" 'NR !=1 { print $2 "|" $3 "|" $4 "|" $5 "|" $6 "|" $7 "|" }' 1$$.2out > $tmpfile2

tmpfile1

WESTRIDGE & KH.WESTRIDGE|2WTC1-WESTRIDGE| 
SB36BUTT|1|789|Cabinets|0|1|

{NONE}|0|0|Cabinets|-1|1.1|

SB36BUTT|1|789|Cabinets|0|2|

{NONE}|0|0|Cabinets|-1|2.1|

SB36BUTT|1|789|Cabinets|0|3|

{NONE}|0|0|Cabinets|-1|3.1|

SB36BUTT|1|789|Cabinets|0|4|

{NONE}|0|0|Cabinets|-1|4.1|

Thank you!
Snug

 

[PHV]

Replace this:
NR=1
with this:
NR==1

Hope This Helps, PH.
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