I am trying to get the string contained in a row/col location of a text file.

Example
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 00
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 10
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 20

the string at row 2 col 3 length 2 is 12.

I need to to do some script redirection according to what text is contained ina text file, i.e. what type of form the user has printed.

I am using ksh and am open to other solutions.

may be I am wrong, but at row 2 col 3 length 2 I see the 13 and not 12.

Please give some more examples to what you want. I dont understand the second part.

For example I have the following text file:

I would like a line in the script to return a true if the word Invoice is located in row 1 colum 12. Other forms could have Quote, Purchase Order, etc... in the same location. I am to do something dfferent for each different form.

thanks

hi!

just a try to ur problem,

i understand that at row 1 col 12 there can be values like invoice,Quote,Purchase Order,etc. and depending on these values u need to call different script/redirection(correct me if i am wrong)

if my understanding is correct then u can extract what is contained in row1 col12 using it

val=`awk '{ if (NR==1) print $12}' filename.txt`

now $val contains values like Invoice/Quote/PurchaseOrder

now u can use case on $val values and do redirection accordingly.

hope this is what u want.
--Pooja