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Old 05-02-2013
Checking the variable in UNIX
Hi,

I have a file abc.txt as
Code:
ABC,TYU,1.2566
AHG,GJJ,1.898
hgh,FGA,1.854

My program is reading each line and storing the values variables base_cy, quo_cy, ra_amt

Need to validate each of them as in:

base_cy and quo_cy should be a 3 character alphabet among A-Z, if it is lower case then convert to upper case

and for ra_amt it should be numeric value having only 1 decimal

if all these conditions are met then only proceed otherwise the program should leave this record and move to next one

Please can anyone help me to put this validation.

Thanks in advance.
Last edited by Franklin52; 05-03-2013 at 03:17 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples
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Old 05-02-2013
Using code tags, what have you tried so far?
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