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works for me....thank you !

cat works to pass in the contents for this....
cat data.txt | awk 'length==19{print}'

how do I pass in the contents for this statement...?

{if (length() == 880)
print > "valid.file";
else ...

how do I pass in the contents of the datafile ?

example...any line that has 50 chars goes in one file, everything else goes in the other

HEADER
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
123456 John Doe 1 Main St ...

I have a datafile that is formatted as fixed.
I know that each line should contain 880 characters.
I want to separate the file into 2 files, one that has lines with 880 characters and the other...