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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to validate a field when it is blank using awk prog Post 302354668 by meva on Saturday 19th of September 2009 09:08:46 AM
Old 09-19-2009
Actually the column values are stored in a variable like f1,f2....f10... and so on...

So now how do i check for the blank space stored in this variable?

I tried the below specified piece of code for a particular field

Code:
if(f10==""){
print "Field 10 is Correct";}
else{
print "Field 10 is Wrong"; }

but it dint work? it gave me the wrong results for my validation....is that i have used it wrongly or is there any other option?

Please help me with ur inputs

Thanks In Advance
Meva
 

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Mail::Field::Date(3)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				      Mail::Field::Date(3)

NAME
Mail::Field::Date - a date header field INHERITANCE
Mail::Field::Date is a Mail::Field SYNOPSIS
use HTTP::Date 'time2iso'; my $field = Mail::Field->new(Date => time2iso()); DESCRIPTION
Represents one "Date" header field. METHODS
Constructors Mail::Field::Date->combine(FIELDS) See "Constructors" in Mail::Field Mail::Field::Date->extract(TAG, HEAD [, INDEX ]) See "Constructors" in Mail::Field Mail::Field::Date->new(TAG [, STRING | OPTIONS]) See "Constructors" in Mail::Field "Fake" constructors $obj->create(OPTIONS) See ""Fake" constructors" in Mail::Field $obj->parse() See ""Fake" constructors" in Mail::Field Accessors $obj->set(OPTIONS) -Option --Default Time undef TimeStr undef Time => SECONDS TimeStr => STRING A string acceptable to Date::Parse. $obj->stringify() See "Accessors" in Mail::Field $obj->tag() Mail::Field::Date->tag() See "Accessors" in Mail::Field Smart accessors $obj->text([STRING]) See "Smart accessors" in Mail::Field $obj->time([TIME]) Query (or change) the TIME (as stored in the field) in seconds. DIAGNOSTICS
Error: Undefined subroutine <method> called Mail::Field objects use autoloading to compile new functionality. Apparently, the mehod called is not implemented for the specific class of the field object. SEE ALSO
This module is part of the MailTools distribution, http://perl.overmeer.net/mailtools/. AUTHORS
The MailTools bundle was developed by Graham Barr. Later, Mark Overmeer took over maintenance without commitment to further development. Mail::Cap by Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>. Mail::Field::AddrList by Peter Orbaek <poe@cit.dk>. Mail::Mailer and Mail::Send by Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>. For other contributors see ChangeLog. LICENSE
Copyrights 1995-2000 Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com> and 2001-2007 Mark Overmeer <perl@overmeer.net>. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html perl v5.16.3 2012-12-21 Mail::Field::Date(3)
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