10-19-2007
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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