On Fri, 19 Jan 2024, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Greg Wooledge wrote:
>> unicorn:~$ string="apple,banana,cherry,date"
>> unicorn:~$ commas=${string//[!,]/}
>> unicorn:~$ echo "${#commas}"
>> 3
>
> Always astonishing what a good bashism can do.
>
>
>> But at this point, we have to wonder what the *actual* goal is.
to exclude phrases with commas for seperate examination
>
> Up to now we only know about the astonishment of fxkl4...@protonmail.com
> that grep -c does not count characters.
i DID know that
that brain cell was offline at the moment
it needed a reminder to refresh the connection
>
> For a more complicated use case i would write a little C program where
> i'd be in control of every single bit of throughput.
> (Ok, C causes scars on the programmer's self esteem. But what does not
> kill me makes me just stronger. I'm a vim user.)
vi is the only way to go
i programmed c on hp/ux for 20+ years
had a room full of k200's
that was a lifetime ago
