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Old 11-09-2011
Trying to find number of uppercase and lowercase letters.

Hello Guys,

I am writing a script which check each line for how many Uppercase and Lowercase letter of a given file. Please check my script as follow:

Code:
l=0

while read line
do
echo Line `expr $l + 1` has ` tr -cd "[A-Z]" < $line | wc -c` uppercase letters and
 `tr -cd "[a-z]" < $line | wc -c` lowercase letters.

l=`expr $l + 1`
done < $1

I am not getting what is wrong. I am not getting answer. Is anyone can help me?

Best Regards,
# 2  
Old 11-09-2011
The "wc -c" will get the entire line piped to it and so it'll count all the letters of that line including the newline character...use either awk or sed to accompilsh this.
# 3  
Old 11-09-2011
My echo command is working to get total uppercar and lowercase letter of given file. It's not working while trying to get uppercase and lowercase letter in each line.

Thanking You,
Yatin
# 4  
Old 11-09-2011
an easier approach:
Code:
nawk '{lu=gsub("[A-Z]","");ll=gsub("[a-z]","");u+=lu;l+=ll;printf("Line [%d]: u->[%d] l->[%d]\n", FNR,lu,ll)}END { print "Total:: upper:" u " lower:" l}' myFile

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