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Subject:	Re: a awk question....
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Brozewicz Robert F <brozewicz DOT rf AT mellon DOT com> wrote:

>this may not b the correct forum for this question but ill try any way.
>
>a coworker of mine has written an awk program to find a sting in a dataset.
>once he finds the string how can he stop the processing.

Use the command "exit", assuming he doesn't want to process any other
file.  If he wants to skip any more processing just on the *current*
file and start on the next one, use the command "nextfile".

HTH

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