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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello, Unix-Forums!
Is there a command that can check how long a user-entered string is?
Please don't give me a code, just the name of the command (playing around yourself is much more fun than just pasting code)
edit: I'm sorry, first hit of the forum search gave me the answer. (1 Reply)
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
HI
In my script, i am reading the input from the user and want to find the length of the string.
The input may contain leading spaces. Right now, when leading spaces are there, they are not counted.
Kindly help me
My script is like below. I am using the ksh.
#!/usr/bin/ksh
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3. Programming
Helo,
I have character array of sixe 128
char filename
now I have one problem that when I enter filename as nothing I got value
as " " ",`\0` " .
when I find this string length ( " ",`\0`) as 1(one).
actually I want to make this length as zero.
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
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lets say i have a variable
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello All,
Plz help me with:
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys, I hope you can help me with my problem.
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Hi all,
pls help me in finding the length of the given string,
do we need to write a code seperately or is there any command??
pls help. (3 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
In the shell scripted I'm trying to write!
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