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This is kind of urgent. I was wondering if someone can help me with a regular expression that checks for:<br />
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VIN should have only A-Z, 0-9 characters, but not I, O, or Q <br />
Last 6 characters of VIN should be a number <br />
VIN should be 17 characters long.<br />
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I have a text file which contains all the VINs one after the other. So I need to read each VIN from the file<br />
and find out the ones which are not valid. <br />
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An actual example is helpful. The script is written in korn shell.<br />
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Thanks<br />

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This is kind of urgent. I was wondering if someone can help me with a regular expression that checks for:

VIN should have only A-Z, 0-9 characters, but not I, O, or Q 
Last 6 characters of VIN should be a number 
VIN should be 17 characters long.

I have a text file which contains all the VINs one after the other. So I need to read each VIN from the file
and find out the ones which are not valid. 

An actual example is helpful. The script is written in korn shell.

Thanks


Regular Expression for checking valid value from file

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