Hi, --- On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Mahalingam Subramaniam <[email protected]> wrote: | Sorry, it is not helping me either. \--
It would greatly help if you pasted your code, rather than the above. --- | The ultimate aim is to read and count special characters(?) but pointing to variables of | alphabet does not solve the issue. Is there any other method by which it can be resolved?. \-- That is exactly what the mentioned does: * Q=0, initializes the counter variable for '?' * [ "$c" == "?" ] && (( Q++ )), increments the variable Q for every occurence of '?'. * echo "Q = $Q", prints the number of occurrences of '?'. SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
