Counting quotes 1

[columb]

Ok, so I've got the

Syntax error at line 165 : `"' is not matched.

message. What would make my life so much simpler would be if I had a script (awk?) which counted quotes per line and flagged any where the number of quotes was uneven.

Any ideas?
Should this be in the awk forum?

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Columb Healy

 

[p5wizard]

build on this snippet?

[tt]awk '{
CH="\""
occ=0;
while (y=index($0,CH))
{
occ++;
y++;
$0=substr($0,y);
}
if (occ)
print "line " NR ": " occ " double quotes"
}' /path/to/your/script[/tt]


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[columb]

Thanks p5wizard

changing
if (occ)
to
if (occ%2)
gave me exactly what I wanted and saved hours of searching by eye.


On the internet no one knows you're a dog

Columb Healy

 

[p5wizard]

That's Jim Mcnamara's code: see

http://www.unix.com/hp-ux/19176-count-occurences-specific-character-file.html

HTH,

p5wizard