Awk help backspace

From: Raja (sura_12_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/29/04

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    Date: 28 Mar 2004 14:15:11 -0800

    Why is my program not working? Earlier the data file was delimited
    with "|"(Pipe) and the program worked. But now we changed the
    delimiter to X and a backspace character. I have tried this by
    replacing the "|" in my programm as follows and it does not work. Any
    help would be greatly appreciated.

    Regards,
    Raja
    ********************************************************
    awk -F"X\b" '{
    if ( NF < 6 ){
    newline=$0
    oldline = newline
    getline
    newline = substr(oldline,1,length(oldline))";" $0
    while (substr(newline,length(newline),1) != "X^H"){
    oldline = newline
    getline
    newline = substr(oldline,1,length(oldline))";" $0
    }
    print newline
    next
    }
    else print $0
    }' test.txt

    **************************************************
    Earlier version with pipes which worked
    -----------------------------------------
    awk -F"|" '{
    if ( NF < 6 ){
    newline=$0
    oldline = newline
    getline
    newline = substr(oldline,1,length(oldline))";" $0
    while (substr(newline,length(newline),1) != "|"{
    oldline = newline
    getline
    newline = substr(oldline,1,length(oldline))";" $0
    }
    print newline
    next
    }
    else print $0
    }' test.txt
    --------------------------------------------

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