unix spliting string variable

Write a for loop to compare the dot '.' with every character in the string, and each time a dot is found, its location is stored in a variable. This way, after the loop ends you will have this variable contain the location of the last occurence of the dot inside the string.
Now replace the characters following the dot with any other characters, and don't forget to terminate the string with a '\0' character (null).

If you want the new file name to be stored in a new variable, all you need to do is copy the string variable into another string variable before replacing any characters.

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  Nayer Naguib

#include <string.h>

int main ()
{
  char oldpath[] = " aaa/bbb/ccc/xyz.TT" ;
  char newpath[] = "aaa/bbb/ccc/xyz.KK" ;
  int i ;

  strcpy ( newpath, oldpath ) ;
  for ( i = strlen (newpath) - 1; i > 0 && newpath[i] != '.'; i-- ) ;
  strcpy ( &newpath[i], ".KK" ) ;

  return 0 ;
}

Should do the trick

my question was in c shell

$oldPath = "aaa/bbb/ccc/xyz.TT";
$newPath = echo $oldPath | grep "^*\.$";
$newExtension="KK"
$newPath = $newPath $newExtension

echo $newPath

#Will print:
#aaa/bbb/ccc/xyz.KK
#the grep command pulls aaa/bbb/ccc/xyz. then the $newPath $newExtension concatenates them.

Hope this helps out!

~Aqua

Here's a C Shell script that will read all file names in the current directory with the old extension (TT) and replace it with the new one (KK) and print the modified file names:

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#!/bin/csh
foreach fullname(*.TT)
        set newname=`basename "$fullname" .TT`
        echo $newname.KK #or do whatever you like with the newname variable
end
exit 0

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If you want the script to rename the files, just replace the echo statement with the following one (although it is *much* easier to rename files with the mv command!):

        mv $fullname $newname.KK

Also, to store the new file name in the newname variable, replace the echo statement with the following:

        set newname=$newname.KK

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  Nayer Naguib

madmare,

question is very simle, just one command line in csh :
set new_p=`expr $old_p : '\(.*\.\)TT$'`KK;

full c0de:
#!/bin/csh
set old_p="aaa/bbb/ccc/xyz.TT";

set new_p=`expr $old_p : '\(.*\.\)TT$'`KK;

echo "$new_p";

//buflexx

set old_p="aaa/bbb/ccc/xyz.TT";
set new_p=${old_p:s/TT/KK/}
echo $new_p