assignment of data

Hi All,

First posting on this forum.

I am experiencing a scenario which I try to describe here.
Input is a multiline file (actually an xml file), out of which space delimited data fields are extracted using

Line 1: for i in `cat file_name`
Line 2: do
Line 3: var="`echo $i`"
Line 4: echo $i >> temp_out
Line 5: done


if the data field contains something like "2245123<stringchars", line 3 comes up to

var="`echo 2245123<stringchars`"

which fails... due to possible redirection confusions (that's what I think).

My question is, if this is the problem, this should happen always, I mean with all kinds of input data files having such data field combinations. But its not. Its occuring very inconsistently.

Some input files with similar situations are failing at this line and some are not.

Any guesses... Pls...

Expecting some guidence...

regards
raghav..

Are you using $var later in your code? If not, remove line 3. Otherwise, replace line 3 with: