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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to find the number of column in the text file...? Post 302209529 by psiva_arul on Friday 27th of June 2008 08:11:16 AM
Old 06-27-2008
How to find the number of column in the text file...?

Hi,

i have text file with ~ seperated columns. it is very huge size of file,
in the file sompulsary supposed to has 20 columns with ~ seperated.
so how can i find if the file has 20 column in the all rows...?

Sample file:

APA+VU~10~~~~~03~101~101~~~APA.N O 20081017 120.00 AP~~~USD~US~~~7.650000
APV+JY~10~~~~~03~101~101~~~AAPL.O O 20081017 230.00 AC~~~USD~US~~~3.125000
APV+VL~10~~~~~03~101~101~~~AAPL.O O 20081017 160.00 AP~~~USD~US~~~9.750000
AT000000STR1~08~B28DT41~02~~~05~30~~~~STRV.VI~~~EUR~AT~~~48.990000
AT0000606306~08~B0704T9~02~~~05~30~~~~RIBH.VI S~~~EUR~AT~~~84.580000
AT0000612601~08~B067M97~02~~~05~30~~~~ICEL.VI S~~~EUR~AT~~~31.900000~20~21

Let me know if need more info on this

Regards,
MPSSmilie
 

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