hi gurus.. i have a requirement like this...I need to read each line in a file and store it in a variable.. the file is li,e this. i would prefer to construct a loop for this.

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i need something like this, while (i< last record in file)
x= the first record
do some stuff with x
(i=i+1)

read the next record in the next iteration.

thanks in advance

ragha81,
Here is one way of looping thru a file:

thanks a lot for your timely help buddy.. ur code worked the way i wanted!

another way for bash/csh

See 12 Ways to Parse a file

while read EachLine
do
   echo $EachLine
done < input_file