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Old 10-10-2008
vanand420 vanand420 is offline
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Print a portion of a line

Hi,
I am facing a little problem...
I have a line like this :
asdcvashfasashXXXXxxxzxcadd:sdcashjqdasdsmgdkdaxdsnd;
I want to print just a portion of line i.e starting from left 5 characters from ":" and upto ";" i.e. in this case it would be
"xcadd:sdcashjqdasdsmgdkdaxdsnd;"
The length of right most string can vary but end with ";".
Also what to do if I want to print just 5 character left to ";"

Thanks in advance.