08-04-2011
I use ksh88 and serveral ksh93 versions on Solaris and OpenSolaris.
The problem in my case seems to be, that ${#varname} counts bytes per design and not characters. If you are in a single byte locale, like iso-8859, then everything is fine, because every character uses exactly one byte.
Get me right, I don't think, this is a bug. I am just asking, if someone is aware of a construct in kornshell 88 or at least 93, that counts characters in every scenario.
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WC(1) User Commands WC(1)
NAME
wc - print newline, word, and byte counts for each file
SYNOPSIS
wc [OPTION]... [FILE]...
wc [OPTION]... --files0-from=F
DESCRIPTION
Print newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if more than one FILE is specified. A word is a non-zero-length
sequence of characters delimited by white space.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
The options below may be used to select which counts are printed, always in the following order: newline, word, character, byte, maximum
line length.
-c, --bytes
print the byte counts
-m, --chars
print the character counts
-l, --lines
print the newline counts
--files0-from=F
read input from the files specified by NUL-terminated names in file F; If F is - then read names from standard input
-L, --max-line-length
print the maximum display width
-w, --words
print the word counts
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
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This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/wc>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) wc invocation'
GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 WC(1)