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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting stripping certain characters in at the middle of a string Post 302194066 by mcoblefias on Monday 12th of May 2008 07:00:32 AM
Old 05-12-2008
Error stripping certain characters in at the middle of a string

I am trying to strip out certain characters from a string on both (left & right) sides. For example, line=see@hear|touch, i only want to echo the "hear" part. Well i have tried this approach:

line=see@hear|touch
templine=${line#*@} #removed "see@"
echo ${templine%%\|*} #removed "|touch"
hear

...apparently it worked but i want to do this in only one line. Can anyone suggest a way on how to do this?

Another question, what if i added some more characters like this:

line=see@hear|touch|smell

...now i wanted to separate each and every one of them dynamically* like this: (*the values for templine2, 3 & 4 may vary)

templine1=see
templine2=hear
templine3=touch
templine4=smell

...can anyone also suggest on this one?

Many thanksSmilie
 

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CTYPE_CNTRL(3)								 1							    CTYPE_CNTRL(3)

ctype_cntrl - Check for control character(s)

SYNOPSIS
bool ctype_cntrl (string $text) DESCRIPTION
Checks if all of the characters in the provided string, $text, are control characters. Control characters are e.g. line feed, tab, escape. PARAMETERS
o $text - The tested string. RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE if every character in $text is a control character from the current locale, FALSE otherwise. EXAMPLES
Example #1 A ctype_cntrl(3) example <?php $strings = array('string1' => " ", 'string2' => 'arf12'); foreach ($strings as $name => $testcase) { if (ctype_cntrl($testcase)) { echo "The string '$name' consists of all control characters. "; } else { echo "The string '$name' does not consist of all control characters. "; } } ?> The above example will output: The string 'string1' consists of all control characters. The string 'string2' does not consist of all control characters. NOTES
Note If an integer between -128 and 255 inclusive is provided, it is interpreted as the ASCII value of a single character (negative val- ues have 256 added in order to allow characters in the Extended ASCII range). Any other integer is interpreted as a string contain- ing the decimal digits of the integer. SEE ALSO
ctype_print(3). PHP Documentation Group CTYPE_CNTRL(3)
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