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How did you transfer the file? FTP? Be sure to give the 'binary' command before transferring over FTP, or things will be corrupted like this.

Nr. 1 uses a double quote as the field separator and then deletes any non-digit from the start of field 9 and then prints field 9

Nr.2 uses any number of spaces as field separator and then prints...

Or back to using "tr".
a=`echo "$line" | cut -f9 -d '"' | cut -c32-41 | tr '$' ' '`

In what manner does it "not work"?

You don't need to initialize the variables to anything, especially since that may end up making them longer than you want.

%10f won't do what you want either....

Try:
echo "$line" ...

if [ `echo $a | grep "\-$"` ]; then a="-${a%?}"; fi

Provisionally reopened on request since it may not actually be homework, the data is intentionally simplified and obscured compared to the real data.