Re: Learn a Variety of Languages . . . . . . . (was: Re: [tlug] Re: Bourne Shell is the most appropriate scripting language)

["Zev Blut" <zb@example.com>]

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:08:03 +0900, Curt Sampson  
<cjs@example.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Ian MacLean wrote:
>
> > really ? - so how do you *easily* get a character count for a string of
> > utf-8 bytes ?

<Snip>

> However, to answer your question:
>
>      class String
>  	def utf8_char_count
>  	    split('').select { |c| c[0] < 128 }.length
>  	end
>      end
>
> Now, for the rest of your program, you can just say  
> String.utf8_char_count.

I think you can require 'jcode'
and the just use jlength/jsize on each string
Such as :
"foo".jsize

It recognizes UTF8, EUC and ShiftJis

Zev