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By: reggie27

I just downloaded the gawk utility today to run commands in DOS on my PC. I
can get a SUBSTR for numeric values to work in an IF statement, but I can't
get alpha characters to work. When I run the following command:

gawk "{if (substr($1,1,3) == "123") print $1}" baseball_test_file.txt >
baseball_test_file1.txt,

I get the correct data:

123
123xxx
123yyy.

However, when I run this command:

gawk "{if (substr($1,1,3) == "Sun") print $1}" baseball_test_file.txt >
baseball_test_file2.txt,

I get an empty file as a result. Below is my input data. I tried a bunch of
different things, but I can't figure it out. Little help?

123
123xxx
Fri, 4/1 at Rays W 4-1 1-0 Guthrie (1-0) Price (0-1) 
Sun, 4/3 at Rays W 5-1 3-0 Britton (1-0) Davis (0-1) 
Fri, 4/8 Rangers Postponed 5-1     
Tue, 5/17 at Red Sox Postponed 19-21     
Sat, 5/28 at Athletics L 2-4 24-26 Outman (1-0) Bergesen (1-6)
123yyy 


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