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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Calling a substring from another file Post 302203744 by dcfargo on Monday 9th of June 2008 06:12:13 PM
Old 06-09-2008
Calling a substring from another file

I have two files:

One is a list of numbers:

1
5
6
7
10

The second is a very long string

abcdefghijklmno......1234567890


I'd like to print a new file with a 5 character substring that starts at each the positions listed in the 1st file:

such as:

abcde
efghi
fghij
ghijk
jklmno

I've attempted a few While and If loops but can't seem to get the syntax correct.

Thank you.
 

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wcswidth(3C)						   Standard C Library Functions 					      wcswidth(3C)

NAME
wcswidth - number of column positions of a wide-character string SYNOPSIS
#include <wchar.h> int wcswidth(const wchar_t *pwcs, size_t n); DESCRIPTION
The wcswidth() function determines the number of column positions required for n wide-character codes (or fewer than n wide-character codes if a null wide-character code is encountered before n wide-character codes are exhausted) in the string pointed to by pwcs. RETURN VALUES
The wcswidth() function either returns 0 (if pwcs points to a null wide-character code), or returns the number of column positions to be occupied by the wide-character string pointed to by pwcs, or returns -1 (if any of the first n wide-character codes in the wide-character string pointed to by pwcs is not a printing wide-character code). ERRORS
No errors are defined. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |CSI |Enabled | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Standard | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |MT-Safe with exceptions | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
setlocale(3C), wcwidth(3C), attributes(5), standards(5) SunOS 5.11 14 Aug 2002 wcswidth(3C)
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