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Old 11-04-2009
Count line Length
I am trying to write a shell scrip that can give me the line length of a record that was in EBDIC and then converted to ASCII. Everything I try reports 1 yet the length is 2000+. I have tried

echo "Line length : ${#FILE}"
echo "FILE" |awk -F, '{print NF}'
awk '{lenth(file)}'

All I can tell is that there is a charcter or something that says end of line even i it is not end of line.

Can anyone give me another way to count every character in a line until the line break?
# 2  
Old 11-04-2009

Is there a null string (\000) in the line?
# 3  
Old 11-04-2009
No there is a ^k\204 at the start
# 4  
Old 11-04-2009

How do you read the line into the variable?

What is the output when you pipe it through hexdump or od -c?
# 5  
Old 11-04-2009
I am jut typing the code in on the command line so it is read in at FILE listed above

od -c gives me:

\v 204 \0

for the fist set of characters.
# 6  
Old 11-04-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by wbshrk
I am jut typing the code in on the command line so it is read in at FILE listed above

HOW is it read into the FILE variable?

What code do you use?

Quote:

od -c gives me:

\v 204 \0

for the fist set of characters.

\0 is a NUL and ends the string.
# 7  
Old 11-04-2009
Ok if \0 is null how do I get around that? These are all over the record and need to be counted.
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