Counting characters in a string...bourne

Paul S. Sawyer paul at unhtel.uucp
Sun Oct 14 05:26:10 AEST 1990


In article <1990Oct10.212943.9227 at iwarp.intel.com> merlyn at iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
>
>Overkill.  Let nroff do it.

But AT&T has determined that nroff is too powerful a tool to include with
System V (V.2, anyway...)  (Documenter's Workbench optional at extra cost...)

>Or, in Perl:

OK.  The price is right, anyway.  (Then there's always AWF!  B-)


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