On 3/16/06, Vidyadutt S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The following function takes 2 arguments, "a filename" and "number of
> fields". It checks >the number of field of each record against the second
> argument. If it doesn't match, it >increase the value of the variable
> "NM_CNT" by 1. But, once the loop has finished >execution, the value of this
> variable gets reset to "0".
This problem is due the piping in the following line ;)
> cat $FILE | while read RECORD
> do
> if [ `printf "$RECORD" | awk -F\| '{ print NF }'` -ne $FIELDS ]; then
> NM_CNT=`expr $NM_CNT + 1`
> printf "NM_CNT=$NM_CNT\n"
> fi
> done
> printf "NM_CNT=$NM_CNT\n"
You can avoid it by changing the about code to..
for RECORD in `cat tst|awk '{print NF}'`;
do
if [ $RECORD -ne $FIELDS ]; then
NM_CNT=$(($NM_CNT+1))
printf "NM_CNT=$NM_CNT\n"
fi
done
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