05-11-2007
help needed in variable assignment
Hi all,
I am having some value in feedrow in my script.
And want to assign first three character in to DTYPE.
I am using following syntax.
DTYPE=`$FEEDROW|cut -c 1-3`
But it's not assigning this valuse into DTYPE.
Please suggest.
Its really uegent.
Regards,
Gander_ss
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