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Old 02-04-2011
Count value between | sign
Hi
I have a file inw which values are seperated by "|"
I want to count number of values present in each line of the file
Input file

Code:
AS|23 34|BD|A2|890
AK|23 44|D|A2|89076|89
AF|23 34|BD|A2|8

Result
Code:
5  
6
5

there are 5 values inside | sign hence o/p will be 5 similarly in 2nd line it will be 6 and so on
Pls help me
# 2  
Old 02-04-2011
Code:
awk -F'|'   '{print NF}' inputfile

# 3  
Old 02-04-2011
Code:
 $ ruby -ne 'puts $_.count("|")+1' file

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