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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting variables in ksh Post 19580 by Jimbo on Saturday 13th of April 2002 07:20:43 AM
Old 04-13-2002
Several ways, of course. One popular way is:
var2=`echo $var1 | cut -c1-3`
and some will pipe it through sed, but I prefer to use expr because it is just one command, no pipe:
var2=`expr "$var1" : "\(...\)"`

Whatever command to use, we are "nesting" the command string in back-quotes. The back-quoted command will be replaced in the command line by its output.

In ksh, I think the most efficient way (do man ksh), when you can use it:

var2=${var1#pattern} (remove one occurent from front)
var2=${var1##pattern} (remove mult occurrences from front)
var2=${var1%pattern} (remove one occurrence from end)
var2=${var1%%pattern} (remove mult occurrences from end)


But in this case, we want to remove, from the end, all but the first 3 characters, and I could not come up with an expression to represent that.
Jimbo
 

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get_class_vars - Get the default properties of the class

SYNOPSIS
array get_class_vars (string $class_name) DESCRIPTION
Get the default properties of the given class. PARAMETERS
o $class_name - The class name RETURN VALUES
Returns an associative array of declared properties visible from the current scope, with their default value. The resulting array elements are in the form of varname => value. In case of an error, it returns FALSE. CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+ |Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ | 5.0.3 | | | | | | | get_class_vars(3) will only return the properties | | | that can be accessed from the current scope. | | | | | 5.0.2 | | | | | | | Calling get_class_vars(3) will now expose all | | | the properties as an array, unlike previous be- | | | haviour where protected and private properties | | | were prefixed with nul bytes. | | | | | 5.0.1 | | | | | | | Calling get_class_vars(3) will expose all prop- | | | erties, as when converting an object to a class. | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ EXAMPLES
Example #1 get_class_vars(3) example <?php class myclass { var $var1; // this has no default value... var $var2 = "xyz"; var $var3 = 100; private $var4; // constructor function myclass() { // change some properties $this->var1 = "foo"; $this->var2 = "bar"; return true; } } $my_class = new myclass(); $class_vars = get_class_vars(get_class($my_class)); foreach ($class_vars as $name => $value) { echo "$name : $value "; } ?> The above example will output: var1 : var2 : xyz var3 : 100 Example #2 get_class_vars(3) and scoping behaviour <?php function format($array) { return implode('|', array_keys($array)) . " "; } class TestCase { public $a = 1; protected $b = 2; private $c = 3; public static function expose() { echo format(get_class_vars(__CLASS__)); } } TestCase::expose(); echo format(get_class_vars('TestCase')); ?> The above example will output: // 5.0.0 a| * b| TestCase c a| * b| TestCase c // 5.0.1 - 5.0.2 a|b|c a|b|c // 5.0.3 + a|b|c a SEE ALSO
get_class_methods(3), get_object_vars(3). PHP Documentation Group GET_CLASS_VARS(3)
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