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# 1  
Old 06-25-2008
Count lowercase in a word
I have a file like:


aabbccddDDCCDDCCaabbcc 123
CCaaCCBBCCaaaaaaaCCCaa 234
CCDDCCAACCCCccccccccaa 999

I'd like to print out the 1st word followed by the number of lowercase characters in that word. The words only consist of a few letters.

I was trying something like

awk '{a+=gsub(a,a) b+=gsub(b,b) c+=gusb(c,c) d+=(gsub(
d,d) x=(a+b+c+d) END {print $1, X}' infile >outfile


Thanks so much for your help.
# 2  
Old 06-25-2008
Code:
echo 'aabbccddDDCCDDCCaabbcc' | awk '{print $0, gsub("[a-z]", ".")}'

# 3  
Old 06-25-2008
I'm using Bash and going with:

awk '{print $1, gsub("[a-z]", ".")}' infile > outfile

appears to be counting all the letters not just the lowercase letters

Thank you
# 4  
Old 06-25-2008
going with [a,b,c,d] worked for some reason so I'll just use that.


Thanks so much.

Smilie
# 5  
Old 06-25-2008
The following works in ksh93 and should also work in bash.
Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh93

while read str num
do
   strU=${str//[^A-Z]}
   print "${str} ${#strU}"
done < file

On your sample file, it produces the following output
Code:
aabbccddDDCCDDCCaabbcc 8
CCaaCCBBCCaaaaaaaCCCaa 11
CCDDCCAACCCCccccccccaa 12

# 6  
Old 06-26-2008
another way to do this
Code:
# cat aaa
aabbccddDDCCDDCCaabbcc 123
CCaaCCBBCCaaaaaaaCCCaa 234
CCDDCCAACCCCccccccccaa 999

# for i in `cut -f1 aaa -d ' '`; do echo -n "$i "; echo -n $i | sed 's/[^a-z]//g' | wc -c; done
aabbccddDDCCDDCCaabbcc 14
CCaaCCBBCCaaaaaaaCCCaa 11
CCDDCCAACCCCccccccccaa 10

# 7  
Old 09-01-2008
similar but more difficult promblem
Hi,

I have a similar problem where i need to count stretches of lower- and upper-case letters within words like

ttgggcTGGCCGCCCCCCAGggc
ttgggcTGGCCGCtgggcttCCCCCAGggc

the output could look like:

ttgggcTGGCCGCCCCCCAGggc lower 5 upper 12 lower 3
ttgggcTGGCCGCtgggcttCCCCCAGggc lower 5 upper 7 lower 6 upper 6 lower 3

any help would be appreciated,

best
robert



Quote:
Originally Posted by dcfargo
I have a file like:


aabbccddDDCCDDCCaabbcc 123
CCaaCCBBCCaaaaaaaCCCaa 234
CCDDCCAACCCCccccccccaa 999

I'd like to print out the 1st word followed by the number of lowercase characters in that word. The words only consist of a few letters.

I was trying something like

awk '{a+=gsub(a,a) b+=gsub(b,b) c+=gusb(c,c) d+=(gsub(
d,d) x=(a+b+c+d) END {print $1, X}' infile >outfile


Thanks so much for your help.
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