Hi all,
I have tried the following simple code in ksh. (length.sh)
#! /usr/bin/ksh
var="xxxxxx0987890"
echo stringlength is ${#var}
but this gives me a error saying "length.sh: bad substitution"
Can some one please help me in resolving this. (4 Replies)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
I have this script which is very easy:
file=`echo 01114`
echo $file
01114
then I ran this
if ; then echo "yes";fi
it returned yes even though there are only 5 digits there
So then I tried
file=`echo abcd`
echo $file
abcd
if ]; then echo "yes";fi
if ]; then echo "yes";fi
It... (2 Replies)