want to find all lines with the next office id.

[ronaldsiebes]

From these lines I want to place all lines with the office id 1002 and 1102 in an new file. The office id start at character 22.

The next office id. 100200908273292s This is the end of line one.
The next office id. 102200908273292s This is the end of line two.
The next office id. 110200908273292s This is the end of line three.
The next office id. 101200908273292s This is the end of line four.
The next office id. 102200908273292s This is the end of line five.
The next office id. 110200908273292s This is the end of line six.

 

[PHV]

And what have you tried so far ?
You may consider grep or sed or awk or ...

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[ronaldsiebes]

Well I first did
grep -E '1102|1002' filename > newfilename

This work fine. But if the lines are like this, then my problem start. In line two the numbers 1102 is named, but this is not in the position I need to check. So with the grep it won't work.

The next office id is 1022. 100200908273292s This is the end of line one.
The next office id is 1102. 102200908273292s This is the end of line two.
The next office id is 1012. 110200908273292s This is the end of line three.
The next office id is 1022. 101200908273292s This is the end of line four.
The next office id 1102. 102200908273292s This is the end of line five.
The next office idis 1002. 110200908273292s This is the end of line six.

 

[PHV]

The office id start at character 22
grep -E '^.....................(1102|1002)' filename > newfilename

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[ronaldsiebes]

This works fine on my linux server. So I do think that it will also work on AIX.

thanks