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Old 04-12-2009
How to find number of Cols in a file ?
Hi

I have a requirement wherein the file is comma separated. Each records seems to have different number of columns, how I can detect like a row index wise, how many columns are present ?

Thanks in advance.
# 2  
Old 04-12-2009
Hope this helps,

count=0
while read LINE
do
let count=count+1
echo $LINE|awk -F, '{ print "Line : "'$count', "Columns : "NF }'
done < $file
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Old 04-12-2009
or u can use this in command line,

awk -F, '{ print "Line : "FNR, "Columns : "NF }' file
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