Erik Curiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: : :Why not just do the whole thing in awk? When I have more time, maybe :later tonight, I can write up an example script.
Something along the lines of:
awk '{if ($1!~"^#" && $1!="") print "column 1 is",$1,"and column 2 is",$2}' $INFILE
will catch the majority of cases. You'll probably want to have it
catch comments in $2 as well, and behave differently if $2 is empty,
but I leave that as an exercise for the reader.
DVS
