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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users how to find lenght of fixed width file record? Post 302710297 by Seshendranath on Thursday 4th of October 2012 07:51:44 AM
Old 10-04-2012
Question how to find lenght of fixed width file record?

actually i am trying to find the lenght of fixed width file record reading from teradata db but its not working can u guys help me out?

code which i wrote---

Code:
colmn_lngth=`cat $RPT_FILE | awk -F~ '{print $1}'`
 
 rm $RPT_FILE
 
 
 while read line
 do
 
  result=`echo $line | wc -m`
  result=`expr $result - 1`
    
   if [ $result -le $colmn_lngth ]; then
        echo $line >> $Src_File.temp
   else
       echo $line >> $Src_File.bad
   fi
 done < $Src_File


but in file if record is having spaces in between then its not counting tht spaces so it is creating wrong validation.
and writing tht record in to file also its not going properly ....plzs guys can any help out with this issue.plzs

Last edited by Scott; 10-04-2012 at 10:55 AM.. Reason: Code tags
 

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