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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:30:19 +0200
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Heinz=2DJ=FCrgen?= Oertel <oe@port.de>
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To: william walsh <saieww@softwareag.com>
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Subject: Re: B20 - Getting substring functionality to work
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william walsh wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I am trying to get substring functionality to work for use within GNUMake
> under WindowsNT. cygwin is B20 with the 16Jan99 updated dll.  The bash
> reference says:
> 
[snip]
> What am I doing wrong?  If I get this to work what happens if I use a
> negative offset that has an absolute value greater than the length of the
> string and/or of the length value?
> 
> Regards,
> William
> 

are you shure using 'bash' ?
at me it works.



  Heinz



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