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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

Set the IFS before "read":

IFS=""

HI
Thank you very much for the timely reply