In the last episode (May 16), Tim Daneliuk said:
> On 05/16/2013 10:08 AM, Joe wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > Have script that has max size on content in a variable.
> > How to code size less than 51 characters?
> >
>
> FOO="Some string you want to check length of"
> FOOLEN=`echo $FOO | wc | awk '{print $3}'`
>
> You can then use $FOOLEN in a conditional.
Much better way:
FOO="Some string you want to check length of"
FOOLEN=${#FOO}
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Dan Nelson
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