Andrew Spitz

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.

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. 

counting-characters

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

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

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.


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.

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.

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. 

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

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.

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!

I have no idea, when I load some other files, it works. My lines in the coll look something like this:

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]

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.;

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

That makes sense. Glad it's demystified!


Counting characters