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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Getting strings before and after a character Post 302277147 by ricksj on Thursday 15th of January 2009 02:35:30 PM
Old 01-15-2009
Getting strings before and after a character

OK This one has me stumped. I have the following line,
program name - the program description that can also contain a hyphen - character.

I'm need to separate the "program name" from the program description.

I've tried using an array function with the - as delimiter, but I ran into a problem when I discovered some of the files I'm handling contain this second hyphen.

Using this code results in output that's out of order:
Code:
    split(s, array1, "-")
    for (i in array1) {
      print "ARRAY "i": " array1[i]
    }

Output:
Code:
ARRAY 2:  the program description that can also contain a hyphen 
ARRAY 3:  character.
ARRAY 1: program name

I use the array1[1] no problem, but how do I use the 2+ arrays?

I'm open to alternate methods for splitting this line of text.
 

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WCSCMP(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							 WCSCMP(3)

NAME
wcscmp - compare two wide-character strings SYNOPSIS
#include <wchar.h> int wcscmp(const wchar_t *s1, const wchar_t *s2); DESCRIPTION
The wcscmp() function is the wide-character equivalent of the strcmp(3) function. It compares the wide-character string pointed to by s1 and the wide-character string pointed to by s2. RETURN VALUE
The wcscmp() function returns zero if the wide-character strings at s1 and s2 are equal. It returns an integer greater than zero if at the first differing position i, the corresponding wide-character s1[i] is greater than s2[i]. It returns an integer less than zero if at the first differing position i, the corresponding wide-character s1[i] is less than s2[i]. CONFORMING TO
C99. SEE ALSO
strcmp(3), wcscasecmp(3), wmemcmp(3) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.44 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. GNU
1999-07-25 WCSCMP(3)
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