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Old 08-29-2008
Annihilannic Annihilannic is offline Forum Advisor  
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The read command splits the line into fields separated by white space by default. You can change this by redefining the inter-field separator (IFS). Try this:


Code:
#!/bin/ksh
while IFS="" read line
do
len=`echo "$line" | wc -c`
echo $len
done

Last edited by Annihilannic; 08-29-2008 at 02:54 AM.. Reason: D'oh, too slow. :-)