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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help needed in Korn Shell scripting Post 302772347 by Juhi Kashyap on Monday 25th of February 2013 06:57:31 AM
Old 02-25-2013
Want a Korn shell script which reads the records in a file and at a specific position it is to be checked whether tht is blank.
eg-

dhgadjhkwdkwyuywu gdwyduyweeduy
xvgjdwtdjtwktdtwtdt udedeiueduuedu

suppose tht one line in file is of 100 characters nd position 20-28 have to be checked for blank or empty string.

Please help...
using awk will be preferred

---------- Post updated at 06:57 AM ---------- Previous update was at 06:55 AM ----------

the above code is what i have tried but tht works only if the position we are checking is the last position in the file
 

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XmTextFieldPosToXY(library call)										  XmTextFieldPosToXY(library call)

NAME
XmTextFieldPosToXY -- A TextField function that accesses the x and y position of a character position SYNOPSIS
#include <Xm/TextF.h> Boolean XmTextFieldPosToXY( Widget widget, XmTextPosition position, Position *x, Position *y); DESCRIPTION
XmTextFieldPosToXY accesses the x and y position, relative to the upper left corner of the TextField widget, of a given character position in the text buffer. widget Specifies the TextField widget ID position Specifies the character position in the text for which the x and y position is accessed. This is an integer number of characters from the beginning of the buffer. The first character position is 0. x Specifies the pointer in which the x position is returned. The returned position is the distance from the left side of the wid- get to the left border of the character. This value is meaningful only if the function returns True. y Specifies the pointer in which the y position is returned. The returned position is the distance from the top of the widget to the character's baseline. This value is meaningful only if the function returns True. For a complete definition of TextField and its associated resources, see XmTextField(3). RETURN
This function returns True if the character position is displayed in the TextField widget; otherwise, it returns False, and no x or y value is returned. RELATED
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