<quote who="Robert Thorsby">
> > sed 's#[^,]*##g' input.txt | tr -d '\n' | wc -m
>
> Something like the following might be close:
>
> awk 'BEGIN{FS=","}{$0~",$":i=i+NF?i=i+NF-1}END{print(i)}' input.txt
Close in what sense, the syntax error, the length, or the output? ;-)
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