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Thanks guys your solutions have worked and I am learning allot along
the way.

This is my last coding problem.


target="check-state"

# Find the rule number of the target rule where you want the doorman
# pass rules inserted before.

ruleno=`ipfw list | sed -n -e "s/00\([0-9]*\) $target/\1/p"`

The output of 'ipfw list' looks like this

nnnnn  a 5 position sequence rule number
blank  followed by a empty single position
x-x    a 10 to 80 position rule text


When the rule text matches the target text I want the
first 5 position rule number to go into ruleno.

Large rules files may use all 5 positions and then
the above code will fail to get the rule number.
Tried to remove the s/00\ but had syntax problems.