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Counting characters

Andrew Spitz — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:54:00 +0000

Hi list,

I’m trying to count how many characters (including spaces, floats and semicolons) are in [coll]. Is there a way?

I’m getting close by using [spell] and [capture] and adding an approximation but it is far from ideal.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Andrew

Re: Counting characters

jko — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:59:59 +0000

Using strlen by Jasch you could do:

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Best, Joerg

Re: Counting characters

Emmanuel Jourdan — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:51:51 +0000

Andrew S wrote on Tue, 03 March 2009 18:54

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

That is probably silly but I would go for saving the coll file, and look at the size of the file.

Re: Counting characters

Luke Hall — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:06:40 +0000

I was thinking exactly the same as Emmanuel, but just in case you don’t want to have to store your [coll] contents you could try the method on the right side of this patch.

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Re: Counting characters

Andrew Spitz — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:33:15 +0000

Thanks for the replies.

Joerg, that is exactly what I was looking for.

Lh, your ‘copy compress’ isn’t reading for some reason… do you mind trying again?

I needed this process to happen “automatically” with no user input, which is why [strlen] works better for me then reading the file size.

Thanks again!

Re: Counting characters

Luke Hall — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:42:50 +0000

How odd, I’ll attach the file here as well then.

Re: Counting characters

Andrew Spitz — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:39:37 +0000

Thanks for sending the file. It seems to be adding a few characters. I’m not sure why, or if it’s something I’m doing wrong but I’m OK using [strlen] for now, thank you.

Re: Counting characters

Luke Hall — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:44:06 +0000

It should count every character including punctuation, spaces and include the indices, the only thing it won’t count is newline characters, but if [strlen] is working for you then no worries!

Re: Counting characters

Andrew Spitz — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:33:50 +0000

I have no idea, when I load some other files, it works. My lines in the coll look something like this:
f, 261 1 2 0.81 1.;

Could the letters at the beginning be the cause of it? When I have some more time, I’ll try figure out what I’m doing wrong. I’m pretty sure it’s on my side though, as I’m not used to working with [coll]

Thanks for all your help.

Re: Counting characters

Luke Hall — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:47:41 +0000

Ah it seems that it adds trailing zeros on to the floating point numbers and then counts all those zeros, oops!

Re: Counting characters

Andrew Spitz — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:17 +0000

That makes sense. Glad it’s demystified!