Linux

I assume that since this is posted in the UNIX forum that you are looking for a shell script solution. Here's one way, although it's a tad ugly ('data' is a file containg records as you described):

integer length
cat data | while read line
do
set $line
length=`echo $2|wc -c`
length=`expr $length - 1`
echo $length
done

I'm sure some slick perl programmer can come up with a much better way.

Gary

Here is a little script that will print to you a line number + the line that column 2 & 3 which has a different lenght.


num=1
cat test_file|while read line
do
col2=`echo $line|cut -d" " -f2|wc -c`
col3=`echo $line|cut -d" " -f3|wc -c`
if [ "$col2" != "$col3" ]
then echo "line number $num is invalid"
echo $line
fi
num=`expr $num + 1`
done

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