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Old 05-01-2012
Removing characters from end of string
Hello,
I have records like below that I want to remove any five characters from the end of the string before the double quotes unless it is only an asterik.
Code:
    3919,5020                  ,04/17/2012,0000000000006601.43,,0000000000000000.00,,       132,        251219,"*"
1668,0125                  ,04/16/2012,0000000000001720.00,,0000000000000000.00,,       124,        232287,"04/09-13/12 IT CONTRACT CONSULTANT SVCS RENDERED           kkl20"

I don't care what the characters are, but I need to retain the double quotes after I remove them. Can you point me to some examples of how to accomplish this? Thank you.
# 2  
Old 05-01-2012
Code:
$ awk -F, -v OFS=, '{if($NF!~/\"\*\"/){print substr($0,1,length($0)-6)"\""}else{print}}' test.txt 
3919,5020                  ,04/17/2012,0000000000006601.43,,0000000000000000.00,,       132,        251219,"*"
1668,0125                  ,04/16/2012,0000000000001720.00,,0000000000000000.00,,       124,        232287,"04/09-13/12 IT CONTRACT CONSULTANT SVCS RENDERED           "

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Old 05-01-2012
Works perfectly. Thank you for your help.
 
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