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Yes, they are between the string.

Hi,

I have a "|" delimited file that is exported from a database.
There is one column in the file which has description/comments entered by some application user. It has "Control-M" character and...

Thanks Rudi.

Running in parallel is certainly one option and i am exploring that.
Certainly agree there are specific programs designed for it; but i wanted to invest some time to find out...

All,

Thanks for your inputs.
The suggested solution works for me
awk -F\| -v X="an" 'match ($NF, ".*"X) {print $0, RLENGTH-length(X)+1}' OFS=\| file

The project involves searching a list of...

Yoda,

Thanks for the inputs. nawk works but have another challenge here:
The string to search for is dynamic and hence needs to passed as a variable to awk.

I tried the following code though i...

Yoda,

Thanks for your reply. Appreciate your inputs.
I have the following queries:

1. i am getting a syntax error around the n = match ( $i, /n[^n]*$/ )..may be i am not pasting the character...

I am trying to search a given text in a file and find its last occurrence index. The task is to append the searched index in the same file but in a separate column. I am able to accomplish the task...