Re: [MLUG] count fields

[Chad Whiting <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tuesday 07 October 2003 11:14 am, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, mehmood hasan wrote:
> > I want to count No. of filled fields in any row
> > i am seeking a query that returns me the number of filled fields in a
> > row; any one can help me
>
> It depends on the delimiter.  If the delimiter is white space (spaces and
> tabs), then gawk will do it well (except that it ignores initial white
> space, but that's often a good thing).  I'm assuming you have a text file.
> You do this:

i'm guessing these fields are in an array or vector or some sort of list and 
then you can just use a loop and go through the array and count the number of 
entries, if not then you could use a StringTokenizer and create tokens of 
each field by however you seperate the fields using that as your delimiter, 
such as a white space, comma or whatever.

Chad Whiting
Student Programmer

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