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Thanks, that worked perfectly

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I have a new problem regarding reading a specific line...

what if I wanted to get the first two fields which are both strings and my search only consists of the first field?

Say the input was as follows:

Brat 20 x 1000 32rf
Pour 15 p 1621 05pr
Dart 10 z 1111 22xx

My program prompts for an input, what I want is to use the input to locate a specific field. Like if...

That did the trick, thank you. I also have a problem with changing delimiters between fields.
awk -F"-" '{print $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6}' database.txt


is what I have, and have been fooling around...

I am trying to make all the fields containing lower case letters upper case and the third field of a file display ** instead.
I have this:

awk '{printf "%s %s ** %d %d\n", $1,...

I'm sorry, but could you explain what the colons mean?

Corona,

I tried testing your code, and it says on the loop with the case statement "integer expression expected"

May I ask the reason to not use test? I recognize the square brace as an alternative method, I'm just curious as I'm just starting to learn.

And # is?

So, I am new to shell scripting and have a few problems.
I know how to read from standard input but I do not know how to really compare it to say, a character. I am trying to compare it to a...