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From: Matthew Bettinger <matt@championelevators.com>
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Subject: Re: OT sed help
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 17:19:22 -0500
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Thanks for the solution.

Informix fun fun ...

Matt


On Thursday 19 September 2002 02:40 pm, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Matthew Bettinger <matt@championelevators.com> wrote:
>  > I have a flat file that I need to import into a database.  The first
>  > field of the file is a part number which cannot exceed more than 8
>  > characters.
>  >
>  > Does anyone know how I can use  sed to count the characters in the f=
irst
>  > field and if there are more than 8 print out a list?
>
> It's probably easiest to use awk for that job:
>
>    awk '(length($1) > 8)' flatfile.txt
>
> Regards
>    Oliver
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