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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Counting number of commas(,) in a variable Post 302328333 by Franklin52 on Wednesday 24th of June 2009 05:05:59 AM
Old 06-24-2009
Something like this?

Code:
echo $var | awk -F, '{print NF-1}'

 

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NUMRANGE(1)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					       NUMRANGE(1)

NAME
numrange - Print out a range of numbers for use in for loops and such. SYNOPSIS
numrange [-dhV] /<expression>/ DESCRIPTION
numrange will print out a list of numbers based on an expression that you specify. This is useful for making a list of numbers for use in for loops and so on. Ranges are inclusive. Ranges of numbers are specified using the .. operator, like this /20..50/, which means all integers from 20 to 50 inclusive. More complex expressions can be generated using the commas and the 'i' increment operator. OPTIONS
-e <set> Exclude the <set> of numbers from the range output. <set> is a set of numbers separated by commas. -n <n> Use <n> as the separator between numbers. By default, it will use a space. Use ' ' or \n for a newline character or use the -N option. -N Just a quick option for using a newline as the separator. -h Help: You're looking at it. -V Increase verbosity. -d Debug mode. For developers EXAMPLES
All numbers from 1 to 10. $ numrange /1..10/ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 From 10 to 1. Counting down. $ numrange /10..1/ 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 From 1 to 10 and from 15 to 20. $ numrange /1..10,15..20/ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 16 17 18 19 20 Even numbers from 0 to 10 $ numrange /0..10i2/ 0 2 4 6 8 10 Odd numbers. Notice the starting number in the range expression. $ numrange /1..10i2/ 1 3 5 7 9 Factors of 3 between 99 and 120. $ numrange /99..120i3/ 99 102 105 108 111 114 117 120 Decimal numbers $ numrange /1.1..2.5i0.1/ 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 2 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 And negative numbers too. $ numrange /1.0..-2.0i0.3/ 1 0.7 0.4 0.1 -0.2 -0.5 -0.8 -1.1 -1.4 -1.7 -2 You can also pad numbers when you are counting up. This is a trick of how the Perl programming language deals with ranges: $ numrange /01..15/ 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 BUGS
Even though you can do zero padding on simple ranges, like 001..100, it will not pad zeros on complex ranges like 001..100i2, or for counting downwards. SEE ALSO
seq(1), numaverage(1), numbound(1), numinterval(1), numnormalize(1), numgrep(1), numprocess(1), numsum(1), numrandom(1), numround(1) COPYRIGHT
numrange is part of the num-utils package, which is copyrighted by Suso Banderas and released under the GPL license. Please read the COPYING and LICENSE files that came with the num-utils package Developers can read the GOALS file and contact me about providing submitions or help for the project. MORE INFO
More info on numrange can be found at: http://suso.suso.org/programs/num-utils/ perl v5.10.1 2009-10-31 NUMRANGE(1)
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