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Length of a fixed width file
I have a fixed width file of length 53. when is try to get the lengh of the record of that file i get 2 different answers.

Code:
 
awk '{print length;exit}' <File_name>

The above code gives me length 50.


Code:
 
wc -L <File_name>

The above code gives me length 53.

Please clarify on the above.
 
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