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Read a string with leading spaces and find the length of the string
HI
In my script, i am reading the input from the user and want to find the length of the string. The input may contain leading spaces. Right now, when leading spaces are there, they are not counted. Kindly help me My script is like below. I am using the ksh. #!/usr/bin/ksh echo "enter your value" read "A" len=echo ${#A} echo "length of the string you entered is $len" output: enter your value asdf length of the string you entered is 4 NOte: I have entered 8 char (4 spaces + 4 char) Kindly help me |
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Set the IFS before "read":
IFS="" |
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Thank you very much
HI
Thank you very much for the timely reply |
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