04-28-2010
Set the last 4 letter in the filename as a variable
Hi all,
I want to set the last 4 letter in the filename as a variable.
For example, i have AB1234.txt file and i need to have last 4 letter as a variable.
It should be like ;
get last four letter
set var = 1234
How can i write this in C shell??
Thanks,
zibi
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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD
tolower
TOLOWER(3) BSD Library Functions Manual TOLOWER(3)
NAME
tolower -- upper case to lower case letter conversion
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <ctype.h>
int
tolower(int c);
DESCRIPTION
The tolower() function converts an upper-case letter to the corresponding lower-case letter.
RETURN VALUES
If the argument is an upper-case letter, the tolower() function returns the corresponding lower-case letter if there is one; otherwise the
argument is returned unchanged.
SEE ALSO
ctype(3), isalnum(3), isalpha(3), isascii(3), iscntrl(3), isdigit(3), isgraph(3), islower(3), isprint(3), ispunct(3), isspace(3), isupper(3),
isxdigit(3), stdio(3), toascii(3), toupper(3), ascii(7)
STANDARDS
The tolower() function conforms to ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C89'').
CAVEATS
The argument to tolower() must be EOF or representable as an unsigned char; otherwise, the behavior is undefined. See the CAVEATS section of
ctype(3) for more details.
BSD
April 17, 2008 BSD