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Old 07-25-2012
Fetch particular characters from a column
Hi
I wanted to fetch particular characters from a column.I have a file having columns separated by pipe operator.
The contents of the file are
Code:
 Task            | Task started on a component            | B678C56D-96DA-4FFC-B40E-9A032A2EB12E-0000004          | service.adapter:UCF Version Creator

I want 3rd and fourth column as output but from 3rd column only first 37 characters are needed
the output should be:
Code:
B678C56D-96DA-4FFC-B40E-9A032A2EB12E| service.adapter:UCF Version Creator

# 2  
Old 07-25-2012
Code:
awk -F'|' '{gsub(/ */,"",$3); print substr($3,1,36) "|" $4}' input

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Old 07-25-2012
Thanku It solved my purpose
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