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Old 07-23-2012
Question AWK splitting a string of equal parts of 500 chars
Hi ,

can someone help me how to make an AWK code for splitting a string of equal parts of 500 chars in while loop?

Thank you!
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Old 07-23-2012
Does the line always have 1000 characters? What should the program do if there are less/more than 1000 chars?
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Old 07-23-2012
every string is more than 50-100 000 chars
can you tell me the fastest way to make it on equal parts of 500chars?
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Old 07-23-2012
This will discard anything after char 1000, on each line (not sure if that is what you want).

Code:
awk '{ print substr($0,1,500),substr($0,501)}' infile

Or this will split each line up into 500 char chunks:

Code:
awk '{for(i=1;i<length;i+=500) print substr($0,i,500)}'

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Old 07-23-2012
Thank you! Smilie
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