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Old 07-19-2007
srichakra srichakra is offline
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Need help in file validation by shell script

Hi
I am new to this forum.I need a help in the following:
We receve pipe delimited file with
transaction ID,tran_date,Quest_cd,Ans_cd,ans_value.
Same transaction ID can be repeated with different quest_cd and ans_cd.

Basically I need to check if a perticular pair of quest_cd and ans_cd (say Q1234,A1234) is present under a transaction ,then another pair of quest_cd and ans_cd (say Q5678,A5678) should also be present.

Otherwise I need to remove the isolated row from input file and write to a bad file which should have the complete row in defect and with a comment that Q1234A1234 present but Q5678A5678 not present Or vice versa.

The balance good records sholud be written to a good file.

I hope I am clear in my explanation.As this is VERY urgent I appreciate immediate help
Regards
SRK