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Old 04-22-2009
amitmathapati amitmathapati is offline
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Hi ppl..

what if I have the line like this
A BCD

which indicates that first field is f1=A, f2= f3=BCD
i.e. second field has 6 blank characters. So now if I use the above script, I am not able to get the fields in that case.
Can you please suggest in that case how to go about it?

Cheers Amit