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I was wondereing if somebody could point me in the right direction - below is a small script I have put together to check that lines in a file I recieve are the correct length (371) and to output any incorrect lines to a .txt file. However when I run this it does not seem to count spaces as characters - could anybody help me to include the spaces in the count?


#!/bin/ksh
break_length=371

get_values() {

echo "Start Check" > "errorrec.txt"
while read INREC
do
length=$(echo ${INREC} | wc | awk '{print $3}')
if ((${length} != ${break_length} )); then
echo ${INREC} >> "errorrec.txt"
fi
done < "47050001_2005.1"
}

get_values

is this ok !!! ?

Code:

awk '{ if(length > 327) print }' input > output

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
break_length=371

get_values() {

echo "Start Check" > "errorrec.txt"
while read INREC
do
  length=${#INREC}
  if [[ ${length} -ne ${break_length} ]] ; then
    echo ${INREC} 
  fi
done < "47050001_2005.1"  >> "errorrec.txt"
}

get_values

A couple of code suggestions on your ksh script:
...ksh has a builtin for length ${#variable}
...when you want the output of a loop you can redirect the whole loop if you want

I managed to get it to work just thought I'd post my final version for completeness.

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
break_length=371

get_values() {
        export IFS=:
        export OLDIFS=$IFS
        echo "Start Check" > "errorrec.txt"
while read INREC
do
   length=`echo "${INREC}" | wc | awk '{print $3}'`
   if ((${length} != ${break_length} )); then
      echo ${INREC} >> "errorrec.txt"
   fi
done < "47050001_2005.1"
}

get_values