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Tool to count number bytes in each lines of file

Trojan · 2000-05-02 15:23:00

Lo All, I'm looking for a tool to tell me if any of the text files in a certain directory have lines longer than 80 bytes, and if so how many etc. Anyone tell me where to start looking? Can I do it with a unix tool like grep or something? Cheers, Al.

02-05-2000 4:23pm

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Trojan

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Lo All,

I'm looking for a tool to tell me if any of the text files in a certain directory have lines longer than 80 bytes, and if so how many etc.

Anyone tell me where to start looking? Can I do it with a unix tool like grep or something?

Cheers,
Al.

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#2 02-05-2000 5:18pm

Hobbes

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In Qbasic...

const filename = "textfile.txt"

open filename for input as #1
open "report.txt" output as #2
do while not eof(1)
 linenumber = linenumber + 1
 line input #1, a$
 length = len(a$)
 if length &gt; 80 then 
   print #2, linenumber; " :"; length
 end if
loop
reset

#3 04-05-2000 12:40am

Trojan

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Cheers,
you made life a bit easier for me.
Al.

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