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Thanks guys, that worked great! I ran "diff" and the outputs of both the awk and perl commands are identical for my working file.

I'm new at this - but I used the command like this:

awk...

I am the one who wrote the file, so I know where the character sets came from.

Not sure I understand your question though. The non-Japanese characters are all single-byte characters (I am using...

Thanks daptal - but that's not what I need. I need exactly as stated - only detecting lines with a double byte character only in the beginning position.

Greetings,

I want to use a script (preferably awk) which determines if the first character in a line is double-byte (as in Japanese or Chinese) and deletes it.

For example:
(in the above...