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Old 02-22-2011
Find the length of each line in the file
Hi,

I want to find the length of each line(including all the characters, spaces etc.) in a file and check if all the lines are of same length using a ksh script. Please help. Thanks in advance.
# 2  
Old 02-22-2011
You can read the lines in file one by one using 'awk' and get the length using "length()" function.

Try this :: ( Lets say the fields are separated by | )

Quote:
BEGIN { FS = "|" }
{
for (i=0;i<-NR;i++);
array[i]=$0;
}
{ print array[i] , length(array[i] ; }
# 3  
Old 02-22-2011
also,

Code:
$ while read line; do echo -n "$line" | wc -c; done< f1
5
6
7
$ cat f1
char5
char 6
char  7
$

# 4  
Old 02-22-2011
Shell:
Code:
while IFS= read -r line; do
  echo ${#line}
done < infile

Including linefeed character:
Code:
while IFS= read -r line; do
  echo $(( ${#line} + 1 ))
done < infile

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Suryaaravindh
# 5  
Old 02-22-2011
Hi Anchal,

Thanks for your reply.

I have attached a sample file for which I am trying to find out the length. I tried the same code you have sent. I am not getting the correct output. This is the output I get:
562
576
The actual output is:
609
609

Thanks
checklength.zip (395 Bytes) 
# 6  
Old 02-22-2011
Hi Scrutinizer,

Thanks a lot for your reply..the code works absolutely fineSmilie
# 7  
Old 02-22-2011
Code:
awk '{print length+1}' checklength.txt
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