Try the following :
However its always good to try things out.. spoon feeding never helps..

Hi,

Thanks it worked.

Hi,

Now I want to do the same for , when I have four fields in my input file. When I tried to introduse a variable fourth and do the same thing it didnt work.

This is the script that worked for 3 fields in the input file

cnt=0
while read line
do
cnt=`expr $cnt + 1`
first=`echo $line | cut -f1 -d'|'`
second=`echo $line | cut -f2 -d'|'`
third=`echo $line | cut -f3 -d'|'`
if [ "$first" = "" -o "$second" = "" -o "$third" = "" ]; then
print "\nERROR: Line \#$cnt \"$line\" is missing a | field.\n"
print "\n The fields in the input file must be seperated by |"
fi
done < sdh_input_dl

I want to do the same, if there are four fields in my input file and I must check whether they are seperated by a "|".

Thanks in advance

Hi,
Sorry. It was my mistake. Instead of giving field f4 I was giving only f3.

I corrected it and it worked.

Hi,
I modified the code like this, when my input file has four fields.

cnt=0
while read line
do
cnt=`expr $cnt + 1`
first=`echo $line | cut -f1 -d'|'`
second=`echo $line | cut -f2 -d'|'`
third=`echo $line | cut -f3 -d'|'`
fourth=`echo $line | cut -f4 -d'|'`
if [ "$first" = "" -o "$second" = "" -o "$third" = "" -o "$fourth" = "" ]; then
print "\nERROR: Line \#$cnt \"$line\" is missing a | field.\n"
print "\n The fields in the input file must be seperated by |"
fi
done < sdh_input_dl


My input file "sdh_input_dl" has got fields like this.

76H/1_DL16S_16S-LOAD-G5-R2/S2|16S-LOAD-G5-R2/S2|TP2.1.1 N

If you see that last 2 fields i.e TP2.1.1 and N are not seperated by a "|". But this code doesnt give me the correct output.Please help me out.

Thanks in advance

Hi,

With the earlier script that I had given, its not working when I introduce a fourth field and seperator between third and fourth field is a space and not a "|". Where could I be going wrong.

The thing is that I have to check whether all the four fileds in the input file are seperated by a "|" or not. If not I have to display a message saying that the input file format is not correct.

The code goes awry when I seperate the third and fourth fields by a space.

i.e
MANI|123|26 REGISTER

Please help me out.
Thanks in advance.

Buddy.. I told you.. you need to work.. dont rely on spoon feeding.. Anyways.. here is the code.. this is flexible code.. you can have n number of fields.. separated by any delimiter..

I hope this helps..