SubStr() 1

[Michael42]

Hello,

I am trying learn awk to enhance my bourne shell scripts on Sun Solaris.

1. With Awk\Nawk does anyone have an example of using substr() function?

2. Can anyone share how to get input from a $VARIABLE rather than a file?





Thanks,

Michael42

 

[PHV]

Example like this ?
[tt]VARIABLE="1234567890\nabcdefghijklm"
echo "$VARIABLE" | awk '{print substr($0,6,4)}'[/tt]
6789
fghi

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[Michael42]

PHV,

Perfect!

Thanks for posting.

-Michael42

Thanks,

Michael42