Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 15:30:03 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Eric Boucher <eric_boucher60@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: exact length of a line in a file with the read command Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203311523540.67351-100000@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20020331202713.66909.qmail@web9401.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Eric Boucher wrote:
> I want to know the exact length of each line in a
> file. But it seems that when the file begin or end
> with a space caracter of a tab caracter, the "read"
> command in bourne shell delete them and return me only
> what begin with a letter and end with a letter. So
> when I try to know the exact length of a file (I tried
> with both lenght command from "expr" and "nawk"). So
> if for example, a line is like this (note: <space>
> mean the real space caracter and <tab> the tab
> caracter)
> <space>toto<tab>
> the read return me only:
> toto
> which is of length = 4
> but it is suppose to be of length = 6
This just worked for me:
#!/bin/sh
IFS=""
echo "Enter a string"
read tester
echo $tester
echo ${#tester}
If a shell script is going to be non-trivial, I just use Perl.
-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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