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Old 07-11-2011
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how to find character positionin file?
i.e
string = "123X568"

i want to find the position of character "X".

Thanks
# 2  
Old 07-11-2011
Code:
string="123X568"
echo $string |awk -v s=X '{print index($1,s)}'

# 3  
Old 07-11-2011
I get the follwoing error:

awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: bailing out near line 1

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I am using BASH
# 4  
Old 07-11-2011
Use nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk on Solaris.
# 5  
Old 07-11-2011
Or try..
Code:
echo ${string%X*} | wc -c

One more..
Code:
 echo "$string" | awk '{sub(/X.*/,"");print length($0)+1}'

Last edited by michaelrozar17; 07-11-2011 at 04:18 AM..
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# 6  
Old 07-11-2011
Another one:
Code:
echo 123x567 | awk -Fx '{print length($1)+1}'

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# 7  
Old 07-11-2011
Code:
echo "123X568" | awk 'NF+=0' FS= OFS='\n' | awk '/X/{print NR}'

Last edited by Franklin52; 07-11-2011 at 01:36 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags
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