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Forum: Shell Programming and Scripting 02-04-2015

Count The Number Of Delimiters using awk or better

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With awk: $ echo $STRING | awk -F'|'...

With awk:
$ echo $STRING | awk -F'|' '{$NF=$NF"\\";X=NF;for(i=1;i<=NF;++i){ $i ~ /\\$/ && --X};print X}'
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Forum: Shell Programming and Scripting 02-04-2015

Count The Number Of Delimiters using awk or better

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Hi, for fun, in bash: $ echo $STRING ...

Hi, for fun, in bash:
$ echo $STRING
12345678|ABN\|XYZ MED CHEM PTY. LTD.|C||100.00|22|AB"C\|Corp|"XYZ|CDEF"|
$ X=${STRING//\\|/} && X=${X//[^|]/} && echo ${#X}
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