OT: awk problem

From: Maria Aurora VT de la Vega <mtdelavega_at_pse.org.ph>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 00:28:38 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00460C3B.20020515002838@fatcity.com>

 
I'm hoping that there are awk gurus also in this list.

my problem:
when I use awk, it cuts off a part of the line

$ cat -n *0509*|awk '{if ((substr($0,34,2) == "1I") && (length($0)) == 107) {print $0}}'|sort
  1248  110 20020509909000010931381IF110 201 90900001PCOR    AJ        S10000       10000       00001.7600MD
  1249  110 20020509909000020931511IF110 201 90900002PCOR    AJ        S10000       10000       00001.7800MD
  1250  110 20020509909000030931591IF110 201 90900003PCOR    AJ        S20000       20000       00001.8000MD

i am supposed to get a longer line
getting line 1248 as an example:

$ grep "110 20020509909000010931381IF110 201 90900001PCOR" *0509*
110 20020509909000010931381IF110 201 90900001PCOR    AJ        S10000       10000       00001.7600MD C0905L

if I look at the file in windows notepad, this same line has 4box characters between  00001.7600MD and C0905L
I am not sure what those 4 box characters are.

help.

Thanks.

=)
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Maria Aurora VT de la Vega OCP
Database Specialist
Philippine Stock Exchange, Inc.
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