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01-05-2009

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Count number of digits in a word

Hi all

Can anybody suggest me, how to get the count of digits in a word

I tried

Code:

WORD=abcd1234
echo $WORD | grep -oE [[:digit:]] | wc -l
4

It works in bash command line, but not in scripts

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