The wc command shows the number of bytes by default. If you want to count
characters you need to use the flag -m.
As documented in the manual page:
-c, --bytes
print the byte counts
-m, --chars
print the character counts
Regards,
Elias
On 15 February 2016 at 07:08, <alexwei...@alexweiner.com> wrote:
> Hi Bug APL,
>
> the system's word count mechanism says length four. APL says length three,
> I thought this was going to be length 1 and the symbol '⍝'. Does anyone
> know what I am doing incorrectly:
>
> a@a:~/aplstuff$ echo "⍝" > txt
> a@a:~/aplstuff$ cat txt
> ⍝
> a@a:~/aplstuff$ wc txt
> 1 1 4 txt
> a@a:~/aplstuff$ ./wc.apl -q -- txt
> #!/usr/local/bin/apl
> path←∈(⎕ARG ⍳ ⊂'--') ↓ ⎕ARG
> tie←⎕FIO[3] path
> fontents←{⍵, ⎕FIO[6] tie}⍣{⍺⊢⎕FIO[10] tie}''
> fontents←⎕ucs⊃,/⍪(~ fontents∊10 11)⊂fontents
> fontents
> â
>
> ⍴fontents
> 1 3
> )off
>
>
>
> It does not display in my email draft, but APL returns two more symbols
> after the 'a' with the accent. looks like they have values of 0080 and 0090
>
> -Alex
>
>
> -Alex
>
