Limits of FOR loop to go to end of File

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi ALL:),
I have a file for e.g.

ajdflkj|dkj|djfj|go|123|4||||||||||||||89|101|||||||||||||||

The length of file is not fixed. So wat the limits should be given in for loop to access till end of file????

Thanks in advance.....

2

hi,

You need not to know the limit of the line in for loop in unix,

the syntax is simple

for line in $filename
     do
        echo $line
     done

Thanks
namish

3

Thanks namish for quick reply, but i m having a single line file in which
ajdflkj|dkj|djfj|go|123|4||||||||||||||89|101|||||||||||||||

i want to store the fields(which are separated by pipe |) in an array n i dont know the end of file. So how long the loop should run??