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Re: substr

From: Gilgamesh Nootebos <Gilgamesh dot Nootebos at elegant dot nl>
To: Cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Cc: Jim George <jim dot george at blueyonder dot co dot uk>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 14:30:36 +0200
Subject: Re: substr
Organization: The Elegant Group
References: <00d701c1ea8c$d1aea810$23b5fea9@GEORGE.CO.UK> <E16ztmS-0000dA-00@barry.mail.mindspring.net>
Reply-to: Cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>

Michael A Chase wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 07:05:06 +0100 Jim George <jim.george@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
>>    can someone tell me which package provides the substr command line
>>routine?
> 
> In this case, you probably want sed, gawk, or Perl, there is no UNIX
> command 'substr'.

from the commandline you can use 'expr substr <string> <begin> <length>'

it's crude and OT but I just happened to need it today so I remembered this.

-- 
Gilgamesh Nootebos (Elegant Relational Development)
@: Gilgamesh.Nootebos@elegant.nl



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