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Old 05-16-2008
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[quote=nathasha;302195904
tmp3A=${tmp3:0:10}: bad substitution[/QUOTE]

Then you either are not using a recent version of ksh93 (later than 1999) or your data structure has changed from what you provided as a sample.
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