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Old 01-08-2013
Error handling for file

Hi Guys,
I got a csv with pipe delimted file and i want to check second column of the file has any alpha character becuase I am expecting only number in that,
and if any alpha characters then it should throw an error

Thanks in advance
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Old 01-08-2013
Try:
Code:
awk -F\| '$2~/[[:alpha:]]/{print "Alpha alert, oh no..."}' file

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