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Ok, I've simplified and summarised my problem below (see first post for full description):

#Inputfile
1,Thisfieldis27characterslong,field3,field4
2,Thisfieldiss28characterslong,field3,field4...

Larry, Thanks for the prompt reply !

Interesting. Getting closer. I had to put back the line you moved (length($15) > 30 as your version would result in all records in $INPUTFILE getting output ....

Hi,

I've a question on awk. In English I want to:
(a) open a file, (b) search through the file for records where length of field15 > 20 characters and (c) print out some fields in the record.
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