On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 13:16 -0400, Andrew Eidson wrote: > So the substr(0$, 1, 10); 1 is the starting position and 10 is the number of > characters in the field?? I will google it but I am in a bit of a time > crunch currently so any help would be greatly appreciated. Yes. "man awk" has it all in there.