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# 1  
Old 09-10-2007
breaking a word into chars

to break a word into characters..

Eg UNIX to U N I X
# 2  
Old 09-10-2007
Here is one way to do it.

Code:
sed -e "s/[[:alnum:]]/& /g"

# 3  
Old 09-10-2007
k

But if given a name UNIX

i shud display it as

U U N N
U U N N N
U U N NN
U U N N etc..... hw to do this
# 4  
Old 09-10-2007
Is this homework ?
# 5  
Old 09-10-2007
Power No my friend asked me

i gave one result. but i need to be optimised..

echo `sed -e "s/[[:alnum:]]/& \t/g" banner | tr ' ' '\n' ` 1> banner

for i in `cat banner`
do
banner $i | sed 's/#/'$i'/g'
done


help me with it..
# 6  
Old 09-10-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by arunsubbhian
But if given a name UNIX

i shud display it as

U U N N
U U N N N
U U N NN
U U N N etc..... hw to do this
I cant make any pattern out of it.
Tell us exactly the output you expect for the input UNIX.
# 7  
Old 09-10-2007
completely agrees with vino...there is no pattern of displaying the every character.......
even u can use FOLD option .....to extract character by character....
 
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