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Old 05-29-2008
NAWK - setting a variable to the highest value

Hi,

new to nawk so not sure how this works,

I have a file with three values 23:36:18 - i need to set a variable called SCORE with the highest value from the file (i.e. 36) using nawk

can anyone help?

thanks
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Old 05-29-2008
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