Hello,


I am having a hard time trying to do the following:

I have a file that looks like this:

0 CacheMaxConn 4 64
0 RMThread 16 3423423
7 DataSource 0 /hello/sas/ses
0 {94545B4-E343-1410-81E4-08000000} 3 DDBE
3 Source 9 dfskf

if the second part of the line in the text file starts with "{" I want to ignore it.

any help would be appreciated

By "2nd part part of the line", I assume you mean the 2nd field. As you process each record and the relevant fields, the real issue is the construction of a suitable selection that determines whether the first character is a "{".

Personally, I would want to check for a data value that is surrounded by "{" and "}" if that is the definitive trigger for data that needs to be ignored (as in the example you provided).

Assuming the 2nd field is in a variable named ${F2} and using the ksh:

if [[ ${F2} = {*} ]] then

may work (I haven't tried it...)

Alternatively, for more complex comparisons, you may want to try regular expression through egrep and check the return code.

Building on what Simerian said, you could possibly use this code to weed out unwanted lines:

Thanks guys. This was very helpful.

You could use awk to remove the lines where the second field begins with {