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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 14:30:36 +0200
From: Gilgamesh Nootebos <Gilgamesh DOT Nootebos AT elegant DOT nl>
Reply-To: Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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To: Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
CC: Jim George <jim DOT george AT blueyonder DOT co DOT uk>
Subject: Re: substr
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Michael A Chase wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 07:05:06 +0100 Jim George <jim DOT george AT blueyonder DOT co DOT uk> 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.

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Gilgamesh Nootebos (Elegant Relational Development)
@: Gilgamesh DOT Nootebos AT elegant DOT nl



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