Sponsored Content
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [SOLVED] String length in kornshell Post 302544512 by hergp on Thursday 4th of August 2011 04:34:26 AM
Old 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.
 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

length of the string

Hi all, pls help me in finding the length of the given string, do we need to write a code seperately or is there any command?? pls help. (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: vasikaran
3 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

sed problem - replacement string should be same length as matching string.

Hi guys, I hope you can help me with my problem. I have a text file that contains lines like this: 78 ANGELO -809.05 79 ANGELO2 -5,000.06 I need to find all occurences of amounts that are negative and replace them with x's 78 ANGELO xxxxxxx 79... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: amangeles
4 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

read string, check string length and cut

Hello All, Plz help me with: I have a csv file with data separated by ',' and optionally enclosed by "". I want to check each of these values to see if they exceed the specified string length, and if they do I want to cut just that value to the max length allowed and keep the csv format as it... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: ozzy80
9 Replies

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

length of string

Hi lets say i have a variable output="string" how can you find the length of the string contained in this variable? i guess "wc" cannot be used. its only for files. (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: silas.john
8 Replies

5. Programming

regarding string length

Helo, I have character array of sixe 128 char filename now I have one problem that when I enter filename as nothing I got value as " " ",`\0` " . when I find this string length ( " ",`\0`) as 1(one). actually I want to make this length as zero. so what should I do (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: amitpansuria
10 Replies

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

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... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: dayamatrix
2 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

String with different length

let image that we have string: QQQQQQQ:ABCDE:FFFFFF:GGGGG in second field can be 0 or 5 characters if A exist i need set variable ex: VAR=yes if B exist i need set variable ex: VAR1=yes if C exist i need set variable ex: VAR2=yes etc ... if second field is empty no variable to set if... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: vikus
4 Replies

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

[Solved] Listing files starting with p or f and with the exact length of 3 characters

Hello, I need some help. How can I list files starting with p or f and with the exact length of 3 characters? (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: airbebe
2 Replies

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

[Solved] Length of each string

Hi I have a file which has sequences which look like this >String1 aqwertrtrytytyuuijhgddfghhhghhgjhjhhsswekrkmygppdslxmvbnhkwqalldrtjbllnlnlnnnvc >String2 qwwerrtyuiopasdfghjmnbvfklzxerbvcwghjjkoowwqerrtggbddqsdfgaqwcxzakjtyugfsdefrtgyhujiknbbbbcdcdcxsxsx zxzxcvcfcdcg >String3... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: sa@@
5 Replies

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

String Length

Hi All, One of my source file is having Date column and the format of the column is YYYY-MM-DD. As per my business logic I have to check if the date format either YYY-MM-DD or YYYY-M-DD. If any records are in this format then I have print all the records and send those invalid records through... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: suresh_target
4 Replies
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
Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie. REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report wc translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. 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)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 03:15 AM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy