Thank you for the replies. To complicate this a bit more, if the file looks like this and I need to parse out the last two occurances of the search string, skip three lines in each and then only print the lines of data that have 0.150 in the first field and -45.00 in the third field, what would I add? Thanks Again!
9 FAILURE CRITERIA PER PLY
FAILURE CRITERIA PER PLY
DIST ANGLE PLY FAILURE NUMBERS
1 2 SHEAR
0.000 0.00 -45.00 0.238 0.282 -1.459
0.000 0.00 0.00 0.971 1.369 0.004
0.150 5.00 -45.00 0.475 0.142 -1.585
0.150 5.00 0.00 1.003 1.531 -0.274
FAILURE CRITERIA PER PLY
DIST ANGLE PLY FAILURE NUMBERS
1 2 SHEAR
0.000 0.00 -45.00 0.247 0.293 -1.514
0.000 0.00 0.00 1.008 1.422 0.004
0.150 5.00 -45.00 0.493 0.147 -1.645
0.150 5.00 0.00 1.042 1.589 -0.284