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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Substring in ksh88 ? Post 302390806 by hergp on Friday 29th of January 2010 03:58:38 AM
Old 01-29-2010
There is no direct way, but you could do something like this

Code:
#!/bin/ksh

function substring
{
    typeset string="$1" out
    typeset -i offset=$2 length=$3

    while (( offset > 0 ))
    do
        string="${string#?}"
        (( offset = offset - 1 ))
    done

    while (( length > 0 ))
    do
        out="$out${string%${string#?}}"
        string="${string#?}"
        (( length = length - 1 ))
    done

    print "$out"
}

substring abcdefghij 2 4

 

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