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# 1  
Old 11-20-2003
Character selection script
Hi all

I have this bit of code:
Code:
mv horders.unx horders.txt

FILE=horders.txt
awk '
	BEGIN{FS=","}
	{
		if ($1=="HEAD")
		{
			REF=$5;
			print $0;
		}
		if ($1=="LINE")
		{
			print $0 "," REF;
		}
		if ($1=="TEXT")
		{
			print $0 "," REF;
		}
	}' < $FILE > $FILE.new

Field 5 ($5) will contain an alphanumeric sequence of a varying amount of characters. I need to be able to grab the last 10 characters of the sequence and print them to the 'REF' variable.

Can anyone help with this please? Thanks
# 2  
Old 11-20-2003
How about replacing

REF=$5; with

REF=substr($5,length($5)-9); ?
# 3  
Old 11-20-2003
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