On 18/12/07 16:45:18, Robert Thorsby wrote: > Something like the following might be close: > > awk 'BEGIN{FS=","}{$0~",$":i=i+NF?i=i+NF-1}END{print(i)}' input.txt
Oops, I transposed the ":" and the "?" in the conditional. Just shows what you can do when fingers outpace brain. Robert Thorsby Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- von Braun -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html