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Old 12-19-2012
Help with awk statement

Code:
echo "$line"|awk 'x = 1;{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) if ( $i ~  /[0-9]:[0-5][0-9]:[0-5 ][0-9]/){x = 0;print 1}}if ( x == 0){ print -1}'

This code is suppose to read a variable $line and return 1 if the pattern is found or else return -1

Please help me correct this code.
Thanks in advance
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Old 12-19-2012
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Code:
echo "$line"|awk '{{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) if($i ~  /[0-9]:[0-5][0-9]:[0-5 ][0-9]/){x=1}}if (!x){ print "-1"}}'

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