Subject: Re: substr
From: "Uwe Steinfeld" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Jim George" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 20:15:40 +0200

Just try

$ expr --version
expr (GNU sh-utils) 2.0.11
Written by Mike Parker.

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Greetings
Uwe

----- Original Message -----
From: "Randall R Schulz" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Jim George" <[email-masked]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: substr

> Dear Elegant,
>
> Please be specific about what program implements the "expr substr"
command.
> The phrase "the command line" is not singly defined on any Unix (or
> Unix-like) system extant today.
>
> In this case, it's TCSH, which is not the default Cygwin shell (BASH is).
>
> Randall Schulz
> Mountain View, CA USA
>
>
> At 05:30 2002-04-23, Gilgamesh Nootebos wrote:
> >Michael A Chase wrote:
> >>On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 07:05:06 +0100 Jim George
> >><[email-masked]> 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)
>
>
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