Hello,

Just a little problem with the ksh function : strlen

I want to use this function in this little ksh program :

while read line ; do
TOTO=$line
TOTONB=strlen($TOTO)
echo $TOTONB

Hello,

Just a little problem with the ksh function in this program

while read line ; do
TOTO=$line
TOTONB=strlen ($TOTO)
echo $TOTONB
echo $line
done

So i have no value return in TOTONB , so i think that strlen don't work correctly . The doc don't give me any explications to avance in my problem.

I also test with the following lines :

TOTONB=$(strlen($TOTO)) --> don't work
TOTONB=strlen[$TOTO] --> don't work

Have anyone the good syntax or a explication for this problem

Thanks a lot...

You have ksh mixed up with C or something. ksh has no strlen function. You can get the length of a string with:
string="something"
echo ${#string}

Hello,

Your command is fun , it's run .

A have read a lot of documentation of the strlen function (all in C)and nowhere it's write that this function is not available in ksh.

Thanks a lot for your help...