Error while assigning a character value to a numeric variable.

Question

I fire a sql statement and check the number of rows returned by the sql.
I check this result with the application logs.
The application logs keeps the sqls fired by the application and the no of rows returned, in the example below the sql returned 8454 rows.
My script compares the two results.
***********Application Log***********
4/14/2008 11:15:01 AM: 0059 SQL SELECT "CLUSTER_CD",
4/14/2008 11:15:01 AM: 0060 "PRODUCT_DESC",
4/14/2008 11:15:01 AM: 0061 "TEAM_CD"
4/14/2008 11:15:01 AM: 0062 FROM "OPS$TMS"."MAP_CLUSTER_TEAM_PROD"
4/14/2008 11:15:01 AM:      3 fields found: CLUSTER_CD, PRODUCT_DESC, TEAM_CD, 8,454 lines fetched
***********Application Log***********
My script:
#!/bin/ksh
typeset -i resA
typeset -i resB
opstms_conn_string="abc/[email protected]"
set `sqlplus -s $opstms_conn_string << EOF
set pages 0
WHENEVER SQLERROR CONTINUE
SELECT count(*)
FROM MAP_CLUSTER_TEAM_PROD;
exit
EOF`
resA=$1 ##returns 8454
resB=`grep '3 fields found: CLUSTER_CD, PRODUCT_DESC, TEAM_CD,' BCVP_Main_Loader.qvw.log | awk '{print $10}'`
##resB returns 8,454
## here i get syntax error
if [ $resA -eq $resB ]; then
echo "QA passed for sql1"
else
echo "QA failed for sql1"
fi
The problem is as resB is integer variable it does not accept character value: 8,454 so returns a syntax error:
How do I change the value assigned to resB into a numeric variable?
error:
+ grep 3 fields found: CLUSTER_CD, PRODUCT_DESC, TEAM_CD, BCVP_Main_Loader.qvw.log
run.ksh[52]: 8,454: syntax error

Answer 1

Change:
resB=`grep '3 fields found: CLUSTER_CD, PRODUCT_DESC, TEAM_CD,' BCVP_Main_Loader.qvw.log | awk '{print $10}'`
to this:
resB=`grep '3 fields found: CLUSTER_CD, PRODUCT_DESC, TEAM_CD,' BCVP_Main_Loader.qvw.log | awk '{print $10}' | tr -d ,`
to drop the comma. Or you could do it in awk(1):
resB=`grep '3 fields found: CLUSTER_CD, PRODUCT_DESC, TEAM_CD,' BCVP_Main_Loader.qvw.log | awk '{ gsub( /,/, "", $10 ); print $10}'`
Or you could to it all in awk(1):
resB=`awk '
/3 fields found: CLUSTER_CD, PRODUCT_DESC, TEAM_CD/ {
gsub( /,/, "", $10 )
print $10
' BCVP_Main_Loader.qvw.log`
(This example was not tested, it's just for a model.)
Someone more of an SQL guru than I can probably tell you how to change your numeric locale to avoid presenting those commas in the first place and avoid the problem.
HTH