Subject: Re: substr
From: "Jim George" <[email-masked]>
To: "Cygwin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 20:52:00 +0100

Thanks very much for this.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gilgamesh Nootebos" <[email-masked]>
To: "Cygwin" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Jim George" <[email-masked]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: substr

> 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)
> @: [email-masked]
>
>

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