String substring?
Everyone:
Good afternoon. If I wanted the first 4 characters of a string wouldn't I just:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
string=ABCDEJGHIJ
snip=${string:0:4}
echo $snip
I can't seem to make the snip variable contain what I want. The only progress (see "Knowledge level on this subject :) ) I've been able to make is to set the Start parameter to a negative number which retruns the whole string.
As always many thanks for the help and encouragement.
RC
Good afternoon. If I wanted the first 4 characters of a string wouldn't I just:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
string=ABCDEJGHIJ
snip=${string:0:4}
echo $snip
I can't seem to make the snip variable contain what I want. The only progress (see "Knowledge level on this subject :) ) I've been able to make is to set the Start parameter to a negative number which retruns the whole string.
As always many thanks for the help and encouragement.
RC
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Thanks everyone...guess I'll skip it (even if its in the book (Rosenblatt & Robbins)
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