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Tue, 13 Feb 2024 12:38:58 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Mark J. Reed" Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 15:38:45 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Counting characters in command output? To: Zsh Users Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="000000000000344c02061149621e" X-Seq: 29664 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-users@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-users-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-users-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: , List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: --000000000000344c02061149621e Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" I thought this would give me the length of the string, but it seems to be counting words instead: zsh% echo ${#$(echo hello)} 1 Is this a bug? I thought I'd need a modifier flag to treat output as an array and give me a word count, while character count would be the default. -- Mark J. Reed --000000000000344c02061149621e Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I thought this would give me the length of the string, but= it seems to be counting words instead:

=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0zsh% echo ${#$(echo hello)}
<= font face=3D"monospace">=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A01
=
Is this a bug? I thought I'd need a modifier flag to tre= at output as an array and give me=C2=A0 a word count, while character count= would be the default.

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>
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