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# 1  
Old 03-16-2018
Compares not working past the 4th char
There probably is a simple explanation, and maybe I haven’t searched enough for it, or I've looked at this so long I can't see my own mistake, but here’s my issue.

My code is such
Code:
#!/bin/ksh 
awk ' 
{if ($1 == $2) {print $1,$2} }
' file1.txt

File1.txt is this
Code:
000EEB2A 000EEB2A
000EEB2A 000EEB21
000EEB2A 000EEB22
000EEB2A 000EEB23
000EEB2A 000EEB24
000EEB2D 000EEB25
000EEB2D 000EEB2D
000EEBD4 000EEB2D
000EEBD4 000EEBD4
000EEC1D 000EEBD4

The results I’d thought I would get is
Code:
000EEB2A 000EEB2A
000EEB2D 000EEB2D
000EEBD4 000EEBD4

But I get this
Code:
000EEB2A 000EEB2A
000EEB2A 000EEB21
000EEB2A 000EEB22
000EEB2A 000EEB23
000EEB2A 000EEB24
000EEB2D 000EEB25
000EEB2D 000EEB2D
000EEBD4 000EEB2D
000EEBD4 000EEBD4
000EEC1D 000EEBD4

Here is the interesting thing to me. The first four characters in both fields are the same. If I modify one line to make the first four characters different, then it will not print that line. If I change the == equal to a != not equal I will only get a line that has the first four characters different. It seems anything past the first four is not considered.
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 03-16-2018 at 05:02 PM.. Reason: code tags + removed formatting
# 2  
Old 03-16-2018
This is correct. I see the desired results

Code:
tsthbs1:/tmp> cat a
#!/bin/ksh
 
#!/bin/ksh
awk '
{if ($1 == $2) {print $1,$2} }
' file
tsthbs1:/tmp> a
000EEB2A 000EEB2A
000EEB2D 000EEB2D
000EEBD4 000EEBD4
tsthbs1:/tmp>

# 3  
Old 03-16-2018
Well at least I'm not crazy. But it may be a bug in my system. I'm running this on an IBM Mainframe in Unix System Services under zOS 2.2. Thanks
# 4  
Old 03-16-2018
maybe is the format of the file. Try:
Code:
dos2ux < file.txt | awk '$1==$2 {print $1,$2}'

or
Code:
awk '{sub("\r$", "")} $1==$2 {print $1,$2}' file.txt

# 5  
Old 03-16-2018
please provide the output of: cat -vet file using code tags.
Most likely you have ^M at the end of your lines.
If so, dos2unix file to convert.
# 6  
Old 03-16-2018
Additional characters in one field should eliminate matches, not create more. Please post the output of od -tx1c File1.txt.
# 7  
Old 03-17-2018
Perhaps the number recognition is broken?
Then a cast to a string would help
Code:
if ($1"" == $2"")

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