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Old 04-03-2009
Data Check for null values in a column

Hi All,

I have a file with 10 columns and get the required data for nine columns properly except 8th. In 8th column i have both NULL and NON NULL values...i.e
certain records have values for all the columns including 8th column and certain records have 8th column as NULL.My requisite is,without opening or reading the file line by line i need to check if the file contains atleast one NULL value for 8th column .If NULL value exists then i need to reject the file else process the file.

for eg if my file contains records like this,

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
a,s,d,f,f,g,h,,k,l
aa,ss,bb,ee,ff,gg,bb,,kk,ii

how do i get my job done??
Thanks in Advance

Last edited by ganesh_248; 04-03-2009 at 08:53 AM..
 

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COLUMN(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 COLUMN(1)

NAME
column -- columnate lists SYNOPSIS
column [-tx] [-c columns] [-s sep] [file ...] DESCRIPTION
The column utility formats its input into multiple columns. Rows are filled before columns. Input is taken from file operands, or, by default, from the standard input. Empty lines are ignored. The options are as follows: -c Output is formatted for a display columns wide. -s Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the -t option. -t Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with the characters supplied using the -s option. Useful for pretty-printing displays. -x Fill columns before filling rows. ENVIRONMENT
The COLUMNS, LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of column as described in environ(7). EXIT STATUS
The column utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. EXAMPLES
(printf "PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY " ; printf "HH:MM/YEAR NAME " ; ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t SEE ALSO
colrm(1), ls(1), paste(1), sort(1) HISTORY
The column command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno. BUGS
Input lines are limited to LINE_MAX (2048) bytes in length. BSD
July 29, 2004 BSD
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