Read file line by line and calculate length of the line

AngelMady · #1 (**permalink**) 10-11-07, 05:31

Hy,

In a ksh I want to read a file line by line.

My file, file.txt, looks like this:

aaaaa LF
bb bbbb bbb LF

and by LF I mean the end of line.

I used

while read line
do
echo ${#line}
done<file.txt

The output is

5
11

and this is not good because the length of the lines is the same.So I would say that characters like blanks doesn't count.
Is there a way to count all the characters, including blanks, from a line until the end of the line?

Thank you in advance for your answers,

Madalina

pdreyer · #2 (**permalink**) 10-11-07, 07:36

Code:

IFS=
while read line 
do
  echo "${#line} --->${line}<---"
done <<EOF
ab
c d
  e f  
EOF

2 --->ab<---
3 --->c d<---
7 --->  e f  <---

AngelMady · #3 (**permalink**) 10-11-07, 08:06

So I read about IFS and I understood your solution.
Thank you so much

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