Quote:

Originally Posted by trichyselva i have a input file like this 001|rahim|bajaj|20090102 while reading the file i need to check whether the first column is a number second column is a name is there any methodology to check for the same

Code:

while IFS='|' read a b c d
do
  case $a in
    *[![:digit:]]*) echo First column is not a number ;;
    *) echo First column is a number ;;
  esac

  case $b in
   *[![:alpha:]]*) echo Second column is not a name ;;
   *) echo Second column is a name ;;
  esac
done < "$FILE"