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shell script for extracting out the shortest substring from the given starting and en

hi all,
i need an urgent help for writing a shell script which will extract out and print a substring which is the shortest substring from the given string where first and last character of that substring will be given by the user.
for e.g.
if str="abcdpqracdpqaserd"
now if the user gives 'a' and 'd' as the first and last character of the substringi.e. command line arguments.this should extract out acd as the shortest string.
please give simple solution to this.
 

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strfind(3GEN)					     String Pattern-Matching Library Functions					     strfind(3GEN)

NAME
strfind, strrspn, strtrns, str - string manipulations SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag ... ] file ... -lgen [ library ... ] #include <libgen.h> int strfind(const char *as1, const char *as2); char *strrspn(const char *string, const char *tc); char * strtrns(const char *string, const char *old, const char *new, char *result); DESCRIPTION
The strfind() function returns the offset of the first occurrence of the second string, as2, if it is a substring of string as1. If the second string is not a substring of the first string strfind() returns -1. The strrspn() function trims chartacters from a string. It searches from the end of string for the first character that is not contained in tc. If such a character is found, strrspn() returns a pointer to the next character; otherwise, it returns a pointer to string. The strtrns() function transforms string and copies it into result. Any character that appears in old is replaced with the character in the same position in new. The new result is returned. USAGE
When compiling multithreaded applications, the _REENTRANT flag must be defined on the compile line. This flag should only be used in mul- tithreaded applications. EXAMPLES
Example 1 An example of the strfind() function. /* find offset to substring "hello" within as1 */ i = strfind(as1, "hello"); /* trim junk from end of string */ s2 = strrspn(s1, "*?#$%"); *s2 = ''; /* transform lower case to upper case */ a1[] = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"; a2[] = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"; s2 = strtrns(s1, a1, a2, s2); ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |MT-Safe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
string(3C), attributes(5) SunOS 5.11 20 Jan 1999 strfind(3GEN)
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