<quote who="Martin Barry"> > $quoted_author = "Jeff Waugh" ; > > > > Here's a starting point. What's a more optimal way to perform this task? > > :-) > > the first question was "what is the task trying to achieve?" :)
That's part of the challenge. > > sed 's#[^,]*##g' input.txt | tr -d '\n' | wc -m > > you appear to be counting the number of fields in a csv file but unless > there is a trailing comma each line worth of data will be 'off by 1' Ah, an interesting thought, but no, it's more of a blunt instrument than that. ;-) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2008: Melbourne, Australia http://lca2008.linux.org.au/ "In addition to these ample facilities, there exists a powerful configuration tool called gcc." - Elliot Hughes, author of lwm -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
